[ale] command doesn't work from script, only command line...

[Jason Lynn]

pushd and popd are nice shell commands also...
>
>
>On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:58:45AM -0500, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> > Does anyone know why this command:
> >
> > cd `history | grep cd | grep -v grep | tail -n 2 | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " 
>|
> > cut -f 4 -d " "`
> >
> > works from the command line, but not from a [verbatim] shell script:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > cd `history | grep cd | grep -v grep | tail -n 2 | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " 
>|
> > cut -f 4 -d " "`
> >
> > I just named it p (for Previous) so I can switch to the directory I just
> > came from.  It doesn't work though.  Any suggestions?
> >
>
>You do realize this feature already exists in bash don't you? If i am in
>oh, say /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound and then I cd to /etc to check 
>something
>I can get back to where I was by doing "cd -"   That puts me back in
>/usr/src/linux/drivers/sound
>--
>Steven A. DuChene      linux-clusters at mindspring.com
>                       sduchene at mindspring.com
>
>         http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene/
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