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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\fish
cd
# changes the working directory to your home directory.
cd /usr/src/fish-shell
# changes the working directory to /usr/src/fish-shell
\endfish
See Also
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See also the <a href="commands.html#cdh">`cdh`</a> command for changing to a recently visited directory.