Right, was going to mention CDPATH but searched the thread first to see if anyone already had. Also, as you have said, 'cd -' is useful; more so if you often to

Right, was going to mention CDPATH but searched the thread first to see if anyone already had. Also, as you have said, 'cd -' is useful; more so if you often toggle between two dirs, such as a src and a corresponding bin dir (e.g. doing C dev), or src and doc, etc. Then you only need to keep doing 'cd -' to toggle between them, as long as you are not going to any other dir in between. For long dir paths that I cd to often, I sometimes define them as shorter shell env. vars. and add them to my .profile or equivalent startup file. Then I just do: cd $short_dir_name_1 # or 2, etc.