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From: mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: My Favorite alias
Message-ID: <479@gouldsd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 16:54:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 16:54:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 06:36:21 EST
Organization: Gould Electronics, Landover MD.
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Keywords: well, what the hell, I like it.


	I was thinking we might be able to start some kind of discussion
of usful C-shell aliases, etc. Anyhow, if not, quick, Jeeves, my asbestos
undershorts !

alias @ 'alias \!:1 cd `pwd`'

	What this lets you do is make a 'mark' in a directory and then
return to it instantly. If you are in /tmp and type "@ tmp" it will
expand to alias "tmp" to "cd /tmp". I like this better than pushdir
and popdir because I frequently wind up all over the place, and 
depending on my interests of the moment it is easy to set up a series
of aliases in my current login shell. 

--mjr;
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