Piling on the nitpick train :) If an error occurs along the way popd won't run, so a subshell might be a better way to accomplish the same thing: ( f

Piling on the nitpick train :) If an error occurs along the way popd won't run, so a subshell might be a better way to accomplish the same thing: ( for ...; do cd ... done ) # script exits, you're back where you started If you'd prefer to see it in isolation: pwd; ( cd /tmp; pwd ); pwd