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List The Stack Of Remembered Directories

When you open a new Unix shell, you start in some directory, probably your home (~/) directory. As you cd around to different directories, there is a paper trail of your movements, a listing of where you've been. You can view this listing of directories with the dirs command.

$ dirs
~/
$ cd code
$ dirs
~/code ~/
$ cd /usr/bin
$ dirs
/usr/bin ~/code ~/

Each time you cd, the directory you have moved to is pushed onto the stack of visited directories. Alternatively, you can use the popd command to return to the previous directory, removing the current directory from the stack.

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