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Re: pushd/popd/dirs for es

To: es@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: pushd/popd/dirs for es
From: John (Most modern computers would break if you stood on them) Mackin <john@ civil.su.oz.au>
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 05:31:29 -0400
In-reply-to: <9305010631.AA10170@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>

    But do most (or even many) people think shadowing /bin/pwd is
    necessarily a bad thing?

I think it is a bad thing.  I agree with the other person, who said that
pwd should be thought of as a low-level operator that returns The Real
Truth.

OK,
John.

References:
- Re: pushd/popd/dirs for es
  - From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)

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