NAME
cd —
change working directory
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Directory is an absolute or relative pathname which
becomes the new working directory. The interpretation of a relative pathname
by cd depends on the
CDPATH
environment variable (see
below).
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of cd:
-
-
CDPATH
- If the directory operand does not
begin with a slash (/) character, and the first component is not dot (.)
or dot-dot (..), cd searches for the directory relative
to each directory named in the
CDPATH
variable, in
the order listed. The new working directory is set to the first matching
directory found. An empty string in place of a directory pathname
represents the current directory. If the new working directory was derived
from CDPATH
, it will be printed to the standard
output.
-
-
HOME
- If cd is invoked without arguments and
the
HOME
environment variable exists and contains
a directory name, that directory becomes the new working directory.
See
csh(1) for more information on
environment variables.
The
cd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error
occurs.
SEE ALSO
csh(1),
pwd(1),
sh(1),
chdir(2)
STANDARDS
The
cd command is expected to be
IEEE Std
1003.2 (“POSIX.2”) compatible.