go back in bash
I’ve been interested in making a way to go back through directories you were in before in a bash shell.
(You can already go back to the previous directory with cd -, but it only remembers the directory you were just in. You can also use pushd and popd, but that takes some extra work.)
A Google search confirmed that someone else (see comments) did it basically the same way I was thinking. Add the following to ~/.bashrc:
function cd {
if [ -n "$1" ]; then pushd $1 > /dev/null
else pushd $HOME > /dev/null
fi
}
alias bd='popd > /dev/null'
After doing source ~/.bashrc, you can go back simply by tying bd. Now, I bet it would be fairly easy to implement a complementary fd… 
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