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href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd_(Unix)" title="Cd (Unix) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Cd (Unix)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd_(kommando)" title="Cd (kommando) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Cd (kommando)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd_(Kommandozeilenbefehl)" title="Cd (Kommandozeilenbefehl) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Cd (Kommandozeilenbefehl)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chdir" title="Chdir – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Chdir" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chdir" title="Chdir – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Chdir" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd_(%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1)" title="Cd (دستور) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="Cd (دستور)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd_(commande)" title="Cd 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href="/wiki/Debian_GNU" class="mw-redirect" title="Debian GNU">Debian GNU</a>/<a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/AT%26T_Bell_Laboratories" class="mw-redirect" title="AT&T Bell Laboratories">AT&T Bell Laboratories</a>, <a href="/wiki/MetaComCo" title="MetaComCo">MetaComCo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>, <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Digital_Research" title="Digital Research">DR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">HP</a>, <a href="/wiki/JP_Software" class="mw-redirect" title="JP Software">JP Software</a>, <a href="/wiki/ReactOS" title="ReactOS">ReactOS</a> Contributors</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a>, <a href="/wiki/V_(operating_system)" title="V (operating system)">V</a>, <a href="/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/MSX-DOS" title="MSX-DOS">MSX-DOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/FlexOS" title="FlexOS">FlexOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a>, <a href="/wiki/TRIPOS" title="TRIPOS">TRIPOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/HP_Multi-Programming_Executive" title="HP Multi-Programming Executive">MPE/iX</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs" title="Plan 9 from Bell Labs">Plan 9</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)" title="Inferno (operating system)">Inferno</a>, <a href="/wiki/ReactOS" title="ReactOS">ReactOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/KolibriOS" title="KolibriOS">KolibriOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/SymbOS" title="SymbOS">SymbOS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cross-platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-platform">Cross-platform</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Command_(computing)" title="Command (computing)">Command</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code></b> command, also known as <b><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">chdir</code></b> (<b>ch</b>ange <b>dir</b>ectory), is a <a href="/wiki/Command-line_interface" title="Command-line interface">command-line</a> <a href="/wiki/Shell_(computing)" title="Shell (computing)">shell</a> command used to change the current <a href="/wiki/Working_directory" title="Working directory">working directory</a> in various <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a>. It can be used in <a href="/wiki/Shell_script" title="Shell script">shell scripts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Batch_file" title="Batch file">batch files</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Implementations">Implementations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cd_(command)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Implementations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The command has been implemented in operating systems such as <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>, <a href="/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> <a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/MetaComCo" title="MetaComCo">MetaComCo</a> <a href="/wiki/TRIPOS" title="TRIPOS">TRIPOS</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/AmigaOS" title="AmigaOS">AmigaOS</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (where if a bare <a href="/wiki/Path_(computing)" title="Path (computing)">path</a> is given, cd is <i>implied</i>), <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/ReactOS" title="ReactOS">ReactOS</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>. On <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a>, it is available in versions 2 and later.<sup id="cite_ref-RUNNINGMSDOS_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RUNNINGMSDOS-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/DR_DOS_6.0" class="mw-redirect" title="DR DOS 6.0">DR DOS 6.0</a> also includes an implementation of the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> and <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">chdir</code> commands.<sup id="cite_ref-drdos6userguide_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drdos6userguide-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The command is also available in the <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open source</a> MS-DOS <a href="/wiki/Emulator" title="Emulator">emulator</a> <a href="/wiki/DOSBox" title="DOSBox">DOSBox</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Unified Extensible Firmware Interface">EFI shell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EFI-Shells-and-Scripting_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EFI-Shells-and-Scripting-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is named <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">chdir</code> in <a href="/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">HP</a> <a href="/wiki/HP_Multi-Programming_Executive" title="HP Multi-Programming Executive">MPE/iX</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The command is analogous to the <a href="/wiki/Stratus_Technologies" title="Stratus Technologies">Stratus</a> <a href="/wiki/Stratus_VOS" title="Stratus VOS">OpenVOS</a> <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">change_current_dir</code> command.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> is frequently included built directly into a command-line interpreter. This is the case in most of the <a href="/wiki/Unix_shell" title="Unix shell">Unix shells</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bourne_shell" title="Bourne shell">Bourne shell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tcsh" title="Tcsh">tcsh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)" title="Bash (Unix shell)">bash</a>, etc.), <code><a href="/wiki/Cmd.exe" title="Cmd.exe">cmd.exe</a></code> on Microsoft <a href="/wiki/Windows_NT" title="Windows NT">Windows NT</a>/<a href="/wiki/Windows_2000" title="Windows 2000">2000</a>+ and <a href="/wiki/Windows_PowerShell" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows PowerShell">Windows PowerShell</a> on <a href="/wiki/Windows_7" title="Windows 7">Windows 7</a>+ and <code><a href="/wiki/COMMAND.COM" title="COMMAND.COM">COMMAND.COM</a></code> on DOS/ Microsoft <a href="/wiki/Windows_3.x" title="Windows 3.x">Windows 3.x</a>-<a href="/wiki/Windows_9x" title="Windows 9x">9x</a>/<a href="/wiki/Windows_Millennium_Edition" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Millennium Edition">ME</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/System_call" title="System call">system call</a> that effects the command in most operating systems is <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">chdir</code> that is defined by <a href="/wiki/POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a>. </p><p>Command line shells on Windows usually use the <a href="/wiki/Windows_API" title="Windows API">Windows API</a> to change the current working directory, whereas on Unix systems <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> calls the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">chdir()</code> <a href="/wiki/POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> function. This means that when the command is executed, no new process is created to migrate to the other directory as is the case with other commands such as <a href="/wiki/Ls" title="Ls">ls</a>. Instead, the shell itself executes this command. This is because, when a new <a href="/wiki/Process_(computing)" title="Process (computing)">process</a> is created, <a href="/wiki/Child_process" title="Child process">child process</a> inherits the directory in which the <a href="/wiki/Parent_process" title="Parent process">parent process</a> was created. If the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> command inherits the parent process' directory, then the objective of the command cd will never be achieved. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Windows_PowerShell" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows PowerShell">Windows PowerShell</a>, Microsoft's object-oriented command line shell and <a href="/wiki/Scripting_language" title="Scripting language">scripting language</a>, executes the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> command (<i>cmdlet</i>) within the shell's process. However, since PowerShell is based on the <a href="/wiki/.NET_Framework" title=".NET Framework">.NET Framework</a> and has a different architecture than previous shells, all of PowerShell's cmdlets like <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">ls</code>, <a href="/wiki/Rm_(Unix)" title="Rm (Unix)"><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">rm</code></a> etc. run in the shell's process. Of course, this is not true for legacy commands which still run in a separate process. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cd_(command)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Directory_(file_systems)" class="mw-redirect" title="Directory (file systems)">directory</a> is a logical section of a <a href="/wiki/File_system" title="File system">file system</a> used to hold files. Directories may also contain other directories. The <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> command can be used to change into a subdirectory, move back into the parent directory, move all the way back to the <a href="/wiki/Root_directory" title="Root directory">root directory</a> or move to any given directory. </p><p>Consider the following subsection of a Unix filesystem, which shows a user's <a href="/wiki/Home_directory" title="Home directory">home directory</a> (represented as <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">~</code>) with a file, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">text.txt</code>, and three subdirectories. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Chdir_example.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Chdir_example.png" decoding="async" width="542" height="242" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="542" data-file-height="242" /></a><figcaption>A user's view of the file system in Unix-like systems begins with the home directory (often abbreviated to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">~</code>). From there, the tree can spread into more subdirectories and/or files.</figcaption></figure> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>If the user's current working directory is the home directory (<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">~</code>), then entering the command <code><a href="/wiki/Ls" title="Ls">ls</a></code> followed by <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd games</code> might produce the following transcript: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-console mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">user@wikipedia:~$ </span>ls <span class="go">workreports games encyclopedia text.txt</span> <span class="gp">user@wikipedia:~$ </span><span class="nb">cd</span><span class="w"> </span>games <span class="gp">user@wikipedia:~/games$</span> </pre></div> <p>The user is now in the "games" directory. </p><p>A similar session in DOS (though the concept of a "home directory" may not apply, depending on the specific version<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vagueness" title="Wikipedia:Vagueness"><span title="This information is too vague. (February 2011)">vague</span></a></i>]</sup>) would look like this: </p> <pre>C:\> <b><a href="/wiki/Dir_(command)" title="Dir (command)">dir</a></b> workreports <DIR> Wed Oct 9th 9:01 games <DIR> Tue Oct 8th 14:32 encyclopedia <DIR> Mon Oct 1st 10:05 text txt 1903 Thu Oct10th 12:43 C:\> <b>cd</b> games C:\games> </pre> <p>DOS maintains separate working directories for each <a href="/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment" title="Drive letter assignment">lettered drive</a>, and also has the concept of a current working drive. The <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> command can be used to change the working directory of the working drive or another lettered drive. Typing the drive letter as a command on its own changes the working drive, e.g. <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">C:</code>; alternatively, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> with the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/d</code> switch may be used to change the working drive and that drive's working directory in one step. Modern versions of Windows simulate this behaviour for backwards compatibility under <a href="/wiki/CMD.EXE" class="mw-redirect" title="CMD.EXE">CMD.EXE</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Note that executing <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> from the command line with no arguments has different effects in different operating systems. For example, if <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> is executed without arguments in DOS, OS/2, or Windows, the current <a href="/wiki/Working_directory" title="Working directory">working directory</a> is displayed (equivalent to Unix <code><a href="/wiki/Pwd" title="Pwd">pwd</a></code>). If <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> is executed without arguments in Unix, the user is returned to the home directory. </p><p>Executing the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> command within a script or batch file also has different effects in different operating systems. In DOS, the caller's current directory can be directly altered by the <a href="/wiki/Batch_file" title="Batch file">batch file</a>'s use of this command. In <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>, the caller's current directory is not altered by the script's invocation of the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> command. This is because in Unix, the script is usually executed within a <a href="/wiki/Child_process" title="Child process">subshell</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Options">Options</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cd_(command)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Options"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unix,_Unix-like"><span id="Unix.2C_Unix-like"></span>Unix, Unix-like</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cd_(command)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Unix, Unix-like"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> by itself or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd ~</code> will always put the user in their home directory.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd .</code> will leave the user in the same directory they are currently in (i.e. the current directory won't change). This can be useful if the user's shell's internal code can't deal with the directory they are in being recreated; running <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd .</code> will place their shell in the recreated directory.</li> <li><code>cd ~<i>username</i></code> will put the user in the username's home directory.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd dir</code> (without a <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/</code>) will put the user in a subdirectory; for example, if they are in <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr</code>, typing <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd bin</code> will put them in <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr/bin</code>, while <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd /bin</code> puts them in <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/bin</code>.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd ..</code> will move the user up one directory. So, if they are <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr/bin/tmp</code>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd ..</code> moves them to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr/bin</code>, while <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd ../..</code> moves them to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr</code> (i.e. up two levels). The user can use this indirection to access subdirectories too. So, from <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr/bin/tmp</code>, they can use <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd ../../local</code> to go to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr/local</code></li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd -</code> will switch the user to the previous directory. For example, if they are in <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr/bin/tmp</code>, and go to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/etc</code>, they can type <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd -</code> to go back to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/usr/bin/tmp</code>. The user can use this to toggle back and forth between two directories without <a href="/wiki/Pushd_and_popd" title="Pushd and popd">pushd and popd</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DOS,_OS/2,_Windows,_ReactOS"><span id="DOS.2C_OS.2F2.2C_Windows.2C_ReactOS"></span>DOS, OS/2, Windows, ReactOS</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cd_(command)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: DOS, OS/2, Windows, ReactOS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>no attributes</i> print the full <a href="/wiki/Path_(computing)" title="Path (computing)">path</a> of the current directory.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-p</code> Print the final directory stack, just like dirs.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-n</code> Entries are wrapped before they reach the edge of the screen.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-v</code> entries are printed one per line, preceded by their stack positions.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd\</code> (DOS and Windows only) returns to the root dir. Consequently, command <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd\subdir</code> always takes the user to the named subdirectory on the <i>root directory</i>, regardless of where they are located when the command is issued.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interpreters_other_than_an_operating_systems_shell">Interpreters other than an operating systems shell</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cd_(command)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Interpreters other than an operating systems shell"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol" title="File Transfer Protocol">File Transfer Protocol</a>, the respective command is spelled <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">CWD</code> in the control stream, but is available as <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">cd</code> in most <a href="/wiki/Client_(computing)" title="Client (computing)">client</a> command-line programs. Some clients also have the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">lcd</code> for changing the working directory <b>l</b>ocally. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Numerical_analysis" title="Numerical analysis">numerical computing</a> environments <a href="/wiki/MATLAB" title="MATLAB">MATLAB</a> and <a href="/wiki/GNU_Octave" title="GNU Octave">GNU Octave</a> include a <code>cd</code> function with similar functionality.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The command also pertains to command-line interpreters of various other application software. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cd_(command)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Directory_structure" title="Directory structure">Directory structure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushd_and_popd" title="Pushd and popd">pushd and popd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chroot" title="Chroot">chroot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_command-line_interpreters" title="List of command-line interpreters">List of command-line interpreters</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cd_(command)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55615-289-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-55615-289-4"><bdi>978-1-55615-289-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=MS-DOS+Commands%3A+Microsoft+Quick+Reference%2C+4th+Revised+edition&rft.pub=Microsoft+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=978-1-55615-289-4&rft.aulast=Wolverton&rft.aufirst=Van&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACd+%28command%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohn_Paul_Mueller2007" class="citation book cs1">John Paul Mueller (2007). <i>Windows Administration at the Command Line for Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000</i>. <a href="/wiki/Wiley_(publisher)" title="Wiley (publisher)">John Wiley & Sons</a>. <a 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(text editor)">ex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fold_(Unix)" title="Fold (Unix)">fold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Head_(Unix)" title="Head (Unix)">head</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iconv" title="Iconv">iconv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Join_(Unix)" title="Join (Unix)">join</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M4_(computer_language)" title="M4 (computer language)">m4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/More_(command)" title="More (command)">more</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nl_(Unix)" title="Nl (Unix)">nl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paste_(Unix)" title="Paste (Unix)">paste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patch_(Unix)" title="Patch (Unix)">patch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Printf_(Unix)" title="Printf (Unix)">printf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Read_(Unix)" title="Read (Unix)">read</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sed" title="Sed">sed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sort_(Unix)" title="Sort (Unix)">sort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strings_(Unix)" title="Strings (Unix)">strings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tail_(Unix)" title="Tail (Unix)">tail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tr_(Unix)" title="Tr (Unix)">tr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troff" title="Troff">troff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uniq" title="Uniq">uniq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)" title="Vi (text editor)">vi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wc_(Unix)" title="Wc (Unix)">wc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xargs" title="Xargs">xargs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shell_builtin" title="Shell builtin">Shell builtins</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alias_(command)" title="Alias (command)">alias</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">cd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echo_(command)" title="Echo (command)">echo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Test_(Unix)" title="Test (Unix)">test</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environment_variable#unset_command" 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CHKDSK" title="CHKDSK">chkdsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convert_(command)" title="Convert (command)">convert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disk_Defragmenter_(Windows)" class="mw-redirect" title="Disk Defragmenter (Windows)">defrag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diskcomp" title="Diskcomp">diskcomp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diskcopy" title="Diskcopy">diskcopy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diskpart" title="Diskpart">diskpart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diskraid" class="mw-redirect" title="Diskraid">diskraid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Copy" title="Shadow Copy">diskshadow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drvspace" class="mw-redirect" title="Drvspace">drvspace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fdisk" title="Fdisk">fdisk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Format_(command)" title="Format (command)">format</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fsutil" class="mw-redirect" title="Fsutil">fsutil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Label_(command)" title="Label 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title="Powercfg">powercfg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runas" title="Runas">runas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_service" title="Windows service">sc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Task_Scheduler" title="Windows Task Scheduler">schtasks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shutdown_(computing)" title="Shutdown (computing)">shutdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Start_(command)" title="Start (command)">start</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taskkill" class="mw-redirect" title="Taskkill">taskkill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tasklist" title="Tasklist">tasklist</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Registry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File_association" title="File association">assoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ftype" title="Ftype">ftype</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Registry#Command_line_editing" title="Windows Registry">reg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Registry#Command_line_editing" title="Windows Registry">regini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regsvr32" title="Regsvr32">regsvr32</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">User environment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CHCP_(command)" class="mw-redirect" title="CHCP (command)">chcp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cmdkey" class="mw-redirect" title="Cmdkey">cmdkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DATE_(command)" class="mw-redirect" title="DATE (command)">date</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graftabl" class="mw-redirect" title="Graftabl">graftabl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mode_(command)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mode (command)">mode</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PATH_(variable)" title="PATH (variable)">path</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environment_variable#DOS,_OS/2_and_Windows_(Command_Prompt)" title="Environment variable">set</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Setver" class="mw-redirect" title="Setver">setver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environment_variable#DOS,_OS/2_and_Windows_(Command_Prompt)" title="Environment variable">setx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TIME_(command)" title="TIME (command)">time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Title_(command)" title="Title (command)">title</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ver_(command)" title="Ver (command)">ver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Where_(command)" class="mw-redirect" title="Where (command)">where</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whoami" title="Whoami">whoami</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">File contents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comp_(command)" title="Comp (command)">comp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor" title="MS-DOS Editor">edit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edlin" 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