fish-shell/sphinx_doc_src/cmds/cd.rst
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cd - change directory
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Synopsis
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cd [DIRECTORY]
Description
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``cd`` changes the current working directory.
If ``DIRECTORY`` is supplied, it will become the new directory. If no parameter is given, the contents of the ``HOME`` environment variable will be used.
If ``DIRECTORY`` is a relative path, the paths found in the ``CDPATH`` environment variable array will be tried as prefixes for the specified path.
Note that the shell will attempt to change directory without requiring ``cd`` if the name of a directory is provided (starting with ``.``, ``/`` or ``~``, or ending with ``/``).
Fish also ships a wrapper function around the builtin ``cd`` that understands ``cd -`` as changing to the previous directory. See also <a href="commands.html#prevd">``prevd``</a>. This wrapper function maintains a history of the 25 most recently visited directories in the ``$dirprev`` and ``$dirnext`` global variables. If you make those universal variables your ``cd`` history is shared among all fish instances.
As a special case, ``cd .`` is equivalent to ``cd $PWD``, which is useful in cases where a mountpoint has been recycled or a directory has been removed and recreated.
Examples
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::
cd
# changes the working directory to your home directory.
cd /usr/src/fish-shell
# changes the working directory to /usr/src/fish-shell
See Also
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See also the <a href="commands.html#cdh">``cdh``</a> command for changing to a recently visited directory.