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Old 24th May 2008
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Originally Posted by 18Googol2 View Post
Im pretty sure all popular shells can be configured to let user navigate dir without `cd`, but personally I dont think its a good practice
Well, tcsh is the only shell I'm familiar with, and since it's the FreeBSD default I think it's safe to assume that delboy's using tcsh...

In any case, I don't see why it's bad practice ...
One disadvantage would be:
Code:
% mkdir vi
% vi
% pwd
/home/carpetsmoker/vi
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