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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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It can be, but start out simple: use pushd to change to one directory, and then use popd to go back to the original. Sort of a single-use bookmark system.
Then, once you're comfortable with pushd and popd, branch out and delve into the stack.
A tcsh shell I used at an old job didn't have pushd and popd, so I used to have functions in my .cshrc to mimic just the back-and-forth use.
Thanks for that tip, Jake. I arguably should have included that in the article, but I wanted to try to stay focused on just the two {push,pop}d commands. Didn't occur to me to casually mention one use of dirs as you have here, so I've added it for posterity.
There's so much in the Bash man and info pages to talk about!