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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Using the directory stack like !-2:3 in csh
Summary: indirect method
Message-ID: <992@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 09:18:02 GMT
References: <115@lakart.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 19
Posted: Wed May 18 02:18:02 1988

In article <115@lakart.UUCP>, dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
> 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??

Not directly, but it isn't hard.
(1) In your .cshrc file, introduce a new variable to hold the directory stack:
	set dirs = `dirs`
(2) The commands which can change the directory stack are pushd, popd, cd.
    Introduce aliases for them which maintain the directory stack.
	alias pushd 'pushd \!* ; set dirs = `dirs`'
	alias popd  'popd  \!* ; set dirs = `dirs`'
	alias cd    'chdir \!* ; set dirs = `dirs`'
(3) Now you're away laughing.  All you have to do is write
	$dirs[3]/tcp.ip.h