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You are right about quoting, thank you. I don't want to swap the given directory with the top directory, I want to push the given directory on the top so that the current directory is now second, and the second directory is now third, and so forth. DIRSTACK is rather finicky about being set, which is why I used a separate array to do the manipulation.

Vercingatorix
– Vercingatorix

2020-04-04 23:29:16 +00:00
Commented Apr 4, 2020 at 23:29
Yes, I was only thinking about pd +1, sorry. In DIRSTACK you cannot splice entries in or out, or set DIRSTACK[0] (it will silently fail)

user313992
– user313992

2020-04-04 23:40:23 +00:00
Commented Apr 4, 2020 at 23:40
Still, you can get rid of the tempstack array: pd(){ local t=${DIRSTACK[$1]}; DIRSTACK=("" "${DIRSTACK[@]:0:$1}" "${DIRSTACK[@]:$1+1}"); cd "$t"; dirs; }

user313992
– user313992

2020-04-04 23:54:07 +00:00
Commented Apr 4, 2020 at 23:54

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