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CD(1)                        BSD Reference Manual                        CD(1)

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     c\bcd\bd - change working directory

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     c\bcd\bd _\bd_\bi_\br_\be_\bc_\bt_\bo_\br_\by

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     _\bD_\bi_\br_\be_\bc_\bt_\bo_\br_\by is an absolute or relative pathname which becomes the new work-
     ing directory.  The interpretation of a relative pathname by cd depends
     on the CDPATH environment variable (see below).

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     The following environment variables affect the execution of cd:

     CDPATH  If the _\bd_\bi_\br_\be_\bc_\bt_\bo_\br_\by operand does not begin with a slash (/) charac-
             ter, and the first component is not dot (.) or dot-dot (..), c\bcd\bd
             searches for the directory relative to each directory named in
             the CDPATH variable, in the order listed.  The new working direc-
             tory 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 c\bcd\bd is invoked without arguments and the HOME environment vari-
             able exists and contains a directory name, that directory becomes
             the new working directory.

     See csh(1) for more information on environment variables.

     The c\bcd\bd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

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     csh(1),  pwd(1),  sh(1),  chdir(2)

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     The c\bcd\bd command is expected to be IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX'') compatible.

4th Berkeley Distribution        June 5, 1993                                1