Re: Linux Town Hall at Kathleen Syme Library with special speaker Duncan from MLUG

[Duncan Roe]

Hi everyone, small correction to Sophie's email:

Tonight I'll be talking about bash *cd* history, a new thing (AFAIK)
that I invented. bash history has been around forever.

mluggers: see https://linuxvictoria.org/ and look for "Linux Town Hall".
This is an improved version of the talk I gave at MLUG.

Cheers ... Duncan.

On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 10:58:03PM +1000, Linux Victoria wrote:
>
> A familiar face to many of us, Duncan Roe, who organises MLUG (Melbourne
> Linux User Group) these days, will be talking about bash history.

[Duncan Roe]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 02:23:59PM +1000, luv-main wrote:

> On Tuesday, 2 June 2026 12:10:10 AEST Duncan Roe via luv-main wrote:
> > Tonight I'll be talking about bash *cd* history, a new thing (AFAIK)
> > that I invented. bash history has been around forever.
>

> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/157763/do-we-have-more-history-for-cd
> https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/cdh.html
>
> Other shells like zsh and fish have this sort of thing. I haven't used them
> because a large portion of my work is sysadmin and I don't want to have
> different shells on different systems and most systems have the default shell
> chosen by someone else.
>
> But if you aren't working on such shared systems shells like fish have a lot
> to offer. Getting the most out of bash is always good, but there are other
> options which could benefit a lot of bash users.
>
> For the bold there are even shells with LLM integration...
>
> --
> My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/
> My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
>
After I looked at these URLs I realised I'd missed an important word out
of my talk title.

My talk is about a *persistent* cd stack - still there after a reboot.

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Kevin Exton]

Maybe a little off topic but are the LUV town halls good to go to Duncan?

I've seen the notices whenever they have one, but haven't really understood what a "Town Hall" is?

-- Kevin

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[Duncan Roe]

Hi Kevin,

On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 08:14:20AM +1000, Kevin Exton wrote:
> Maybe a little off topic but are the LUV town halls good to go to Duncan?
>
> I've seen the notices whenever they have one, but haven't really understood
> what a "Town Hall" is?
>
> -- Kevin

They only moved back to in-person a few months ago and I've only been to
2 of them.

Can give a short report next MLUG.

Cheers ... Duncan