Re: Linux Town Hall at Kathleen Syme Library with special speaker Duncan from MLUG
Hi everyone, small correction to Sophie's email: Tonight I'll be talking about bash *cd* history, a new thing (AFAIK) that I invented. bash history has been around forever. mluggers: see https://linuxvictoria.org/ and look for "Linux Town Hall". This is an improved version of the talk I gave at MLUG. Cheers ... Duncan. On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 10:58:03PM +1000, Linux Victoria wrote:
A familiar face to many of us, Duncan Roe, who organises MLUG (Melbourne Linux User Group) these days, will be talking about bash history.
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... -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
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...
-- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
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.
Duncan Roe via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
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.
That's interesting, and potentially useful. When I discovered Zoxide, it quickly became a regular part of my daily computer use. It can match a partially entered directory name, even deep within a subdirectory hierarchy.
participants (3)
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Duncan Roe -
Jason J.G. White -
Russell Coker