I’m writing a shell script that needs to cd to some location. Is there any way to get back to the previous location, that is, the location before cd was executed?
I’m writing a shell script that needs to cd to some location. Is there
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I’m writing a shell script that needs to cd to some location. Is there any way to get back to the previous location, that is, the location before cd was executed?
You can simply do
that will take you back to your previous location.
Some shells let you use pushdir/popdir commands, check out this site. You may also find this SO question useful.