pushd and popd

In computing, pushd and popd are commands used to work with the command line directory stack. They are available on command line interpreters for DOS, Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, such as 4DOS, Bash, Command Prompt and Windows Powershell.

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 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 first Unix shell to implement a directory stack was Bill Joy's C shell. The syntax for pushing and popping directories is essentially the same as that used now.^[1]^[2]

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, which has the effect of toggling between two directories.

popd

popd

Examples

Unix

[user@server /usr/ports] $ pushd /etc 
/etc /usr/ports
[user@server /etc] $ popd
/usr/ports
[user@server /usr/ports] $

DOS Command Prompt

C:\Users\Admin>pushd AppData\Roaming
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming>popd
C:\Users\Admin>

DOS Batch File

@echo off
rem This batch file deletes all .txt files in a specified directory
pushd %1
del *.txt
popd
echo All text files deleted in the %1 directory

References

Unix command-line interface programs and shell builtins
File system	cat chmod chown chgrp cksum cmp cp dd du df file fuser ln ls mkdir mv pax pwd rm rmdir split tee touch type umask
Processes	at bg crontab fg kill nice ps time
User environment	env exit logname mesg talk tput uname who write
Text processing	awk basename comm csplit cut diff dirname ed ex fold head iconv join m4 more nl paste printf sed sort strings tail tr uniq vi wc xargs
Shell builtins	alias cd echo test unset wait
Searching	find grep
Documentation	man
Software development	ar ctags lex make nm strip yacc
Miscellaneous	bc cal expr lp od sleep true and false
Categories Standard Unix programs Unix SUS2008 utilities List

Windows command-line programs and shell builtins
COMMAND.COM Command Prompt Windows PowerShell Recovery Console
File system navigation	cd (chdir) dir popd pushd tree
File management	attrib cacls cipher compact copy del (erase) deltree expand icacls makecab md (mkdir) move rd (rmdir) recover ren (rename) replace rmdir robocopy xcopy
Disk management	chkdsk convert defrag diskcomp diskcopy diskpart fdisk format label subst scandisk sys vol vssadmin
Processes	exit kill powercfg runas sc shutdown start taskkill tasklist
Registry	assoc ftype reg regini regsvr32
User environment	date mode path set setx time title ver whoami
File contents	comp edit edlin fc find findstr print type
Scripting	choice clip cscript doskey echo for goto if more pause prompt rem
Networking	arp getmac hostname ipconfig net use netsh netstat nslookup PathPing ping route tracert
Maintenance and care	driverquery msiexec ntbackup sfc systeminfo w32tm WBAdmin winsat wmic
Boot management	bcdedit bootcfg fixboot fixmbr
Software development	debug exe2bin QBasic
Miscellaneous	cls help
List of DOS commands Environment variables

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