I want to describe a situation that happened two levels earlier.
I use the bash shell to navigate through directories.
Say I started at the directory /home, and then I moved to the directory /home/Downloads, and finally I moved to /home/Videos.
Now I'll describe how to navigate to earlier directories:
To go to the previous directory type cd -.
And to go to the previous of previous directory type cd --
As you notice, previous of previous sounds odd.
Is there a replacement word for "previous of previous"?
Or how would you paraphrase it to make it sound grammatical?
Best Answer
antepenultimate - Two before the last. Penultimate is just before the last. Before the penultimate is antepenultimate.
Some shells will allow you to use the up arrow to recall the last command, so I call antepenultimate, up-up-up.