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Re: pushd/popd

From Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: pushd/popd
Date 2018-11-09 17:30 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 06:20:01AM -0800, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
>> ... not dash (by design) ...
>
>Why?  Easy enough to use pushd/popd and easy enough to not it but
>I'm interested in the reasoning behind this choice.

One of dash's design goals is to be a purely POSIX compatible shell*,
so it deliberately does not implement anything else.

* they actually *do* implement some carefully defined extensions
  according to the man page

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Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-04 16:50 +0100
  Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-11-04 19:00 +0100
    Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-07 12:30 +0100
      Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-11-07 13:10 +0100
        Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-07 15:40 +0100
  Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-11-05 00:20 +0100
  Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-05 15:10 +0100
    Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-11-05 15:40 +0100
  Re : Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-07 23:40 +0100
    Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-11-08 09:00 +0100
  Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-08 00:00 +0100
    pushd/podp (was Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-08 10:50 +0100
      Re: pushd/popd peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-09 16:10 +0100
        Re: pushd/popd Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-09 17:30 +0100
          Re: pushd/popd Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-09 21:50 +0100
        Re: pushd/popd Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-09 17:30 +0100
        Re: pushd/popd peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-10 19:30 +0100
          Re: pushd/popd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-11-11 07:00 +0100
            Re: pushd/popd Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-12 14:50 +0100
              Re: pushd/popd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-11-12 21:40 +0100
    Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-08 14:20 +0100
      Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-12 23:00 +0100
        Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-12 23:20 +0100
          Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-13 03:40 +0100
            Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-13 14:20 +0100
              Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-13 16:00 +0100
              Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-14 11:00 +0100
                Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-14 14:40 +0100
                Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-14 16:40 +0100

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