On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 02:23:59PM +1000, luv-main wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 June 2026 12:10:10 AEST Duncan Roe via luv-main wrote:
Tonight I'll be talking about bash *cd* history, a new thing (AFAIK) that I invented. bash history has been around forever.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/157763/do-we-have-more-history-for-... https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/cdh.html
Other shells like zsh and fish have this sort of thing. I haven't used them because a large portion of my work is sysadmin and I don't want to have different shells on different systems and most systems have the default shell chosen by someone else.
But if you aren't working on such shared systems shells like fish have a lot to offer. Getting the most out of bash is always good, but there are other options which could benefit a lot of bash users.
For the bold there are even shells with LLM integration...
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After I looked at these URLs I realised I'd missed an important word out of my talk title. My talk is about a *persistent* cd stack - still there after a reboot. Cheers ... Duncan.