KSH question about past directories

[Dale Farnsworth]

Sumit Dongre (dongre at optilink.UUCP) writes:
> Is there a way to track/recover the last few directories in ksh-i.

No, but I added three options to cd via ksh functions.

    1.  cd -l		Displays the most recently used 20 current directories.
    2.  cd -foostring	Changes directory to the most recent directory whose
			name contains the string foostring.
    3.  cd -8		Changes to the eighth most recent directory.

The directory list is maintained in most recently used order.

Here are the functions:

# If you want multiple shells to share the same history (either
# concurrently or serially, create a file and place its name in
# the shell variable CDHISTFILE.

alias cd=_cd
function _cd
{
	typeset -i cdlen i status
	typeset t

	if [ $# -eq 0 ]
	then
		set -- $HOME
	fi
	t="$@"
	if [ "$CDHISTFILE" -a -r "$CDHISTFILE" ]
	then
		typeset CDHIST=
		set -- `<$CDHISTFILE`
		((i=-1))
		while [ $# -gt 0 ]
		do
			CDHIST[i=i+1]=$1
			shift
		done
	fi
	set -- $t
	if [ "${CDHIST[0]}" != "$PWD" -a "$PWD" != "" ]
	then
		_cdins
	fi
	cdlen=${#CDHIST[*]}
	case "$@" in
	-)
		if [ "$OLDPWD" = "" ] && ((cdlen>1))
		then
			print ${CDHIST[1]}
			'cd' ${CDHIST[1]} ; status=$?
		else
			'cd' $@ ; status=$?
		fi ;;
	-l)
		typeset -R3 num
		((i=cdlen))
		while (((i=i-1)>=0))
		do
			((num=i))
			print "$num ${CDHIST[i]}"
		done
		return 0 ;;
	-[0-9]|-[0-9][0-9])
		if (((i=${1#-})<cdlen))
		then
			print ${CDHIST[i]}
			'cd' ${CDHIST[i]} ; status=$?
		else
			'cd' $@ ; status=$?
		fi ;;
	-*)
		t=${1#-}
		((i=0))
		while (((i=i+1)<cdlen))
		do
			case ${CDHIST[i]} in
			*$t*)	print ${CDHIST[i]}
				'cd' ${CDHIST[i]} ; status=$?
				break ;;
			esac
		done
		if ((i>=cdlen)) ; then
			'cd' $@ ; status=$?
		fi ;;
	*)
		'cd' $@ ; status=$? ;;
	esac
	_cdins
	if [ "$CDHISTFILE" ]
	then
		print -r ${CDHIST[*]} >$CDHISTFILE
	fi
	# set_prompt
	return $status
}

function _cdins
{
	typeset -i i

	((i=-1))
	while (((i=i+1)<${#CDHIST[*]}))
	do
		if [ "${CDHIST[$i]}" = "$PWD" ]
		then
			break
		fi
	done
	if ((i>20))
	then
		((i=20))
	fi
	while (((i=i-1)>=0))
	do
		CDHIST[i+1]=${CDHIST[i]}
	done
	CDHIST[0]=$PWD
}

-Dale

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