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 > Tired of repeatedly typing `cd ..` to walk up the directory tree? Fed up with defining aliases to jump to the first, second or nth parent directory? `up` to the rescue!
 
-up is a shell function for jumping to a parent directory by name.
+`up` is a shell function for jumping to a parent directory by name.
 
 <img alt="up.gif" src="up.gif" width="600" />