bsd man page for cd

CD(1)							      General Commands Manual							     CD(1)

NAME
       cd - change working directory

SYNOPSIS
       cd directory

DESCRIPTION
       Directory becomes the new working directory.  The process must have execute (search) permission in directory.

       Because	a new process is created to execute each command, cd would be ineffective if it were written as a normal command.  It is therefore
       recognized and executed by the shells.  In csh(1) you may specify a list of directories in which directory is to be sought as  a  subdirec-
       tory if it is not a subdirectory of the current directory; see the description of the cdpath variable in csh(1).

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

4th Berkeley Distribution					  April 29, 1985							     CD(1)