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, pushd and popd are commands used to work with the command line directory

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. They are available on command-line interpreters such as

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, C shell, tcsh,

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, cmd.exe, and PowerShell for operating systems such as

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and

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systems.

Overview

The pushd command saves the current working directory in memory so it can be returned to at any time, pushd moves to the parent directory. The popd command returns to the

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at the top of the directory stack. This directory stack is accessed by the command dirs in Unix or Get-Location -stack in Windows PowerShell. The first Unix shell to implement a directory stack was Bill Joy's C shell. The syntax for pushing and popping directories is essentially the same as that used now. Both commands are available in FreeCOM, the command-line interface of FreeDOS.FreeCOM - FreeDOS
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, ''pushd'' is a predefined command alias for the Push-Location

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and ''popd'' is a predefined command alias for the Pop-Location cmdlet. Both serve basically the same purpose as the pushd and popd commands.

Syntax

Pushd

pushd .. Arguments: *path This optional command-line argument specifies the directory to make the current directory. If path is omitted, the path at the top of the directory stack is used, which has the effect of toggling between two directories.

Popd

popd

Examples

Unix-like

ser@server /usr/ports$ pushd /etc /etc /usr/ports ser@server /etc$ popd /usr/ports ser@server /usr/ports$

Microsoft Windows and ReactOS

C:\Users\root>pushd C:\Users C:\Users>popd C:\Users\root>

CMD batch file

@echo off rem This batch file deletes all .txt files in a specified directory pushd %1 del *.txt popd echo All text files deleted in the %1 directory

References

External links

pushd , Microsoft Docs

popd , Microsoft Docs
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