pushd and popd

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In computing, pushd and popd are commands in various Unix, DOS and Microsoft Windows command line interpreters (shells) such as Bash, cmd.exe, 4DOS/4NT and Windows PowerShell. Both commands are used to work with the command line directory stack.

The pushd command saves the current working directory in memory so it can be returned to at any time, optionally changing to a new directory. The popd command returns to the path at the top of the directory stack. This directory stack is accessed by the command dirs in Unix or Get-Location -stack in Windows PowerShell.

In the Windows PowerShell, pushd is a predefined command alias for the Push-Location cmdlet and popd is a predefined command alias for the Pop-Location cmdlet. Both serve basically the same purpose as the Unix-like pushd and popd commands.

The commands were first used by William Sturka in 1976.

Syntax

pushd

pushd [path | ..]

Arguments:

path This optional command-line argument specifies the directory to make the current directory. If path is omitted, the path at the top of the directory stack is used. This has the effect of toggling between two directories.

popd

popd

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Examples

Unix

[/usr/ports]$ pushd /etc 
/etc /usr/ports
[/etc]$ popd
/usr/ports
[/usr/ports]$

MS DOS

C:\Users\root>pushd \
 
C:\>popd
 
C:\Users\root>

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References

v t e Unix command-line interface programs and shell builtins

File system	cat cd chmod chown chgrp cksum cmp cp dd du df file fsck fuser ln ls lsattr lsof mkdir mount mv pax pwd rm rmdir size split tee touch type umask

Processes	at bg chroot cron fg kill killall nice pgrep pidof pkill ps pstree time top

User environment	clear env exit finger history id logname mesg passwd su sudo uptime talk tput uname w wall who whoami write

Text processing	awk banner basename comm csplit cut dirname ed ex fmt fold head iconv join less more paste sed sort spell strings tail tr uniq vi wc xargs

Shell builtins	alias echo expr printf sleep test true and false unset wait yes

Networking	dig host ifconfig inetd netcat netstat nslookup ping rdate rlogin route ssh traceroute

Searching	find grep locate whatis whereis

Documentation	apropos help man

Miscellaneous	bc dc cal date lp lpr

List of Unix utilities

v t e DOS and Windows command line programs and built-ins

File system (basic)	attrib cd chdir copy del deltree dir erase expand fdisk format makecab md mkdir mklink mountvol move ntbackup rd ren rename rmdir robocopy sfc sys type wbadmin xcopy

File system (advanced)	assoc cacls chkdsk chkntfs cipher comp compact convert defrag diskcomp diskcopy diskpart diskperf fc fixboot fixmbr fsutil ftype icacls join label recover regsvr32 replace rsm scandisk subst tree verify vol vssadmin

Processes	at exit kill powercfg sc schtasks shutdown start taskkill tasklist tlist

Registry	reg regini

User environment	append chcp color date eventcreate finger graftabl mode path pnputil popd pushd runas set setver setx systeminfo time title ver wevtutil whoami winsat

Text processing	edit edlin more sort

Shell programming	break call choice cmd command cscript doskey echo endlocal for forfiles goto if pause powershell prompt rem setlocal shift

Networking	arp atmadm bitsadmin cmstp ftp getmac hostname ipconfig nbtstat net net use netsh netstat nslookup pathping ping rcp rexec route rpcping rsh tcmsetup telnet tftp tracert

Searching	find findstr where

Miscellaneous	bcdedit bootcfg clip cls debug Environment variables exe2bin help lpq lpr msiexec print w32tm wmic

List of MS-DOS commands

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Last modified on 2 May 2013, at 00:55

pushd and popd

Syntax

pushd

popd

Examples

Unix

MS DOS

See also

References