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I did not like two things in the submitted commands and fixed it here:
1) If I do cd - afterwards, I want to go back to the directory I've been before
2) If I call up without argument, I expect to go up one level
It is sad, that I need eval (at least in bash), but I think it's safe here.
eval is required, because in bash brace expansion happens before variable substitution, see http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Repeat_a_string#Using_printf
You can also remove the "&& pwd" if you don't want it to print out each directory as it moves up. Show Sample Output
Here's an alternative if you don't have seq.
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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