On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:58:21AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Bob Hilliard wrote: > >"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes: > > > >> To go to the directory you were in last: > >> cd ~- > > > > What is the purpose of the tilde in this command? In bash and > >sh, at least, `cd -' is what I was taught, and it works fine. Do some > >other shells require `cd ~-'? > > That is the Korn shell convention; I did not know that bash supported the > simpler form.
Do you mean that ~- is the ksh convention, or just - is? Just - works fine on the ksh I'm used to (HP-UX). tcsh also supports "cd -". Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
