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Oct 11, 2014 at 1:24 vote accept Tim
Aug 3, 2014 at 14:29 comment added abonet Perhaps you're thinking of the '~-' feature of bash (which is interpreted as $OLDPWD). That can be used with 'ls' in the manner you describe.
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Jul 28, 2014 at 19:35 comment added fluffy For some of the directory-handling builtins like pushd, yes. Otherwise, the meaning of "the previous directory" is not a terribly useful default.
Jul 28, 2014 at 12:40 comment added Tim @fluffy: Are - used with other builtins in the same way?
Jul 28, 2014 at 12:37 comment added wim I use all the time git checkout - to switch to the previous branch
Jul 28, 2014 at 8:23 comment added fluffy Something to keep in mind is that cd is a builtin, not an external command (nor would it have any way of even working as one). cd - is thus a shell-level feature.
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