Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg
From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Using the directory stack like !-2:3 in csh
Message-ID: <115@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 15:34:38 GMT
Organization: Lake - The systems people
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Here's a problem I often face, and can find no reference to in the manual.

If I have (say) three entries in my directory stack in csh:

% dirs
~/work/lk/src ~/mail ~/work/vw/h/ether

is there any way to refer to ~/mail or ~/work/vw/h/ether with a syntax
like history substitution: say I want to edit tcp.ip.h in ~/work/vw/h/ether:
currently I can supply the full path:

    ~/work/vw/h/ether/tcp.ip.h

or a relative path:

    ../../vw/h/ether/tcp.ip.h

but what I really want to do is to be able to say:

    @:3/tcp.ip.h

where @:3 gets the third entry on my directory stack.

Can I do this??
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