dirs: Linux Commands HowTo
dirs: Display list of remembered directories
Display the list of currently remembered directories.
Syntax
dirs [ N | -N] [-clpv]
Options
N Displays the Nth directory (counting from the left of the list
printed by dirs when invoked without options), starting with
zero.
-N Displays the Nth directory (counting from the right of the list
printed by dirs when invoked without options), starting with
zero.
-c Clears the directory stack by deleting all of the elements.
-l Produces a longer listing; the default listing format uses a tilde to denote
the home directory.
-p Causes dirs to print the directory stack with one entry per
line.
-v Causes dirs to print the directory stack with one entry per
line, prefixing each entry with its index in the stack.
Description
Equivalent to `ls -C -b?; that is,by default files are listed
in columns, sorted vertically, and special characters are represented by backslash
escape sequences.
"After all, what is your hosts? purpose in having a party?
Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they?d
have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi" - P.J.
O?Rourke
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