Is there Linux command to remember directories?

Question

Is there any Linux command which remembers directories I changed, and shows its stack with interacting operation to choose a directory such as pushing an arrow key on keyboard? This must be different from the way pushd/popd/dirs do.

Answer 1

CDargs has the interface you described, although getting it to work automatically from a shell would require a little hacking. You need to call

cdargs -a `pwd`

every time you switch directories, and then just running cdargs will give you a list of the directories you've bookmarked that you can move through with the arrow keys. You'd probably want a temporary file for every terminal, both so multiple terminals don't run into each other and so the list is lost when the terminal is closed, so something like this in your shell's startup script would work:

export CDARGS_FILE=`mktemp /tmp/cdargs_XXXXXXXX`
function cd() {
    pushd $*
    cdargs -f $CDARGS_FILE -a `pwd`
}

Answer 2

It would be easy to write a function that would use dialog or whiptail along with pushdir and popdir to do what you're asking.