Just learned a bash trick.

[dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

Just learned a bash trick.

~- means "the directory you were in before this one"

So, if you want to copy a file from mercury and you are in jupiter:

mercury$ ls
ufo
mercury$ cd jupiter
jupter$ cp ~-/ufo .

Kind of neat. Use with caution!

🦇

#Bash #Linux