.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided .\" that: (1) source distributions retain this entire copyright notice and .\" comment, and (2) distributions including binaries display the following .\" acknowledgement: ``This product includes software developed by the .\" University of California, Berkeley and its contributors'' in the .\" documentation or other materials provided with the distribution and in .\" all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software. .\" Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors may .\" be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without .\" specific prior written permission. .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED .\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. .\" .\" @(#)cd.1 6.3 (Berkeley) 7/24/90 .\" .Dd July 24, 1990 .Dt CD 1 .Os BSD 4 .Sh NAME .Nm cd .Nd change working directory .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm cd .Ar directory .Sh DESCRIPTION The cd utility changes the working directory to .Ar directory . .Pp The .Ar 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). .Pp .Sh ENVIRONMENT The following environment variables affect the execution of cd: .Pp .Tw Fl .Tp Ev HOME If .Nm cd is invoked without arguments, the .Ev HOME environment variable is checked for a default directory name. If .Ev HOME exists and contains a directory name, that directory becomes the new working directory. .Tp Ev CDPATH If the .Ar directory operand does not begin with a slash (/) character, and the first component is not dot (.) or dot-dot (..), .Nm cd searches for the directory relative to each directory named in the .Ev 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. .Nm Cd will print the pathname of the new working directory if it was an element of .Ev CDPATH . See .Xr csh 1 for info on environment variables. .Tp .Pp The .Nm cd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr csh 1 , .Xr sh 1 , .Xr pwd 1 , .Xr chdir 2 .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm cd function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible.