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CD(1)                       General Commands Manual                      CD(1)

NAME
     cd - change working directory

SYNOPSIS
     cd [directory]

DESCRIPTION
     Since cd affects the current shell execution environment, it is always
     provided as a shell regular built-in.  For more information consult the
     manual page for the shell in use.

     The directory operand 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           A colon-separated list of pathnames that refer to
                      directories.  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.

     OLDPWD           Set to the previous working directory after a directory
                      change.  Not supported by csh(1).

     PWD              Set to the current working directory.

EXIT STATUS
     The cd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO
     csh(1), ksh(1), pwd(1), sh(1), chdir(2)

STANDARDS
     The cd command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 ("POSIX.2") compatible.

NetBSD 9.99                     August 31, 2019                    NetBSD 9.99