Is it possible to use cd command to navigate back and forward (like browser)?. Something similar to cd - but it only swaps current and last location. I know I can push dir on stack, it would be great to use cd -> and cd <-, though.

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zsh has this feature.

Enable by setting these options

setopt autopushd
setopt pushdminus

then use with the following commands:

[tim@host] ~% cd
[tim@host] ~% cd /
[tim@host] /% cd /tmp
[tim@host] /tmp% d
0 /tmp
1 /
2 ~
3 ~
[tim@host] /tmp% cd -3
~

Some other zsh options you might want to look into:

autopushd
pushdminus
pushdsilent
pushdtohome
pushd_ignore_dups

You can use pushd and popd

A small tutorial on the subject.

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 # try this function # function cd_func # This function defines a 'cd' replacement function capable of keeping, # displaying and accessing history of visited directories, up to 10 entries. # To use it, uncomment it, source this file and try 'cd --'. # acd_func 1.0.5, 10-nov-2004 # Petar Marinov, http:/ this is public domain cd_func () { local x2 the_new_dir adir index local -i cnt if [[ $1 == "--" ]]; then dirs -v return 0 fi the_new_dir=$1 [[ -z $1 ]] && the_new_dir=$HOME if [[ ${the_new_dir:0:1} == '-' ]]; then # # Extract dir N from dirs index=${the_new_dir:1} [[ -z $index ]] && index=1 adir=$(dirs +$index) [[ -z $adir ]] && return 1 the_new_dir=$adir fi # # '~' has to be substituted by ${HOME} [[ ${the_new_dir:0:1} == '~' ]] && the_new_dir="${HOME}${the_new_dir:1}" # # Now change to the new dir and add to the top of the stack pushd "${the_new_dir}" > /dev/null [[ $? -ne 0 ]] && return 1 the_new_dir=$(pwd) # # Trim down everything beyond 11th entry popd -n +11 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null # # Remove any other occurence of this dir, skipping the top of the stack for ((cnt=1; cnt <= 10; cnt++)); do x2=$(dirs +${cnt} 2>/dev/null) [[ $? -ne 0 ]] && return 0 [[ ${x2:0:1} == '~' ]] && x2="${HOME}${x2:1}" if [[ "${x2}" == "${the_new_dir}" ]]; then popd -n +$cnt 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null cnt=cnt-1 fi done return 0 } alias cd=cd_func

I use these functions:

export BACK_HISTORY=""
export FORWARD_HISTORY=""
function cd { BACK_HISTORY=$PWD:$BACK_HISTORY FORWARD_HISTORY="" builtin cd "$@"
}
function back { DIR=${BACK_HISTORY%%:*} if [[ -d "$DIR" ]] then BACK_HISTORY=${BACK_HISTORY#*:} FORWARD_HISTORY=$PWD:$FORWARD_HISTORY builtin cd "$DIR" fi
}
function forward { DIR=${FORWARD_HISTORY%%:*} if [[ -d "$DIR" ]] then FORWARD_HISTORY=${FORWARD_HISTORY#*:} BACK_HISTORY=$PWD:$BACK_HISTORY builtin cd "$DIR" fi
}

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