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In the tcsh shell, the elements of the directory stack can be access on the command line using =<#>, e,g, =0 =1 .... and a sampled command like: cp Something =1/ would copy file Something to the directory pointed to by the 2nd element of the directory stack (DIRSTACK).

Is there a similar mechanism for the bash shell?

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  • There is the dirs builtin. You could build on that. Commented Sep 11 at 23:08
  • I think I found the answer .... ~<n> seems to be equivalent to =<n>. Commented Sep 11 at 23:38
  • Your <n> doesn't work for me. The angle brackets cause an error. Did you mean ~n for values of n starting from zero (for example ~1)? Commented Sep 12 at 2:24

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You can access the directory stack through the $DIRSTACK array. The documentation (man bash) explains

DIRSTACK An array variable (see Arrays below) containing the current contents of the directory stack. Directories appear in the stack in the order they are displayed by the dirs builtin.

Assigning to members of this array variable may be used to modify directories already in the stack, but the pushd and popd builtins must be used to add and remove directories. [...]

It's also worth reading the sections on dirs, popd and pushd to see other ways of manipulating the directory stack

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