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From: faustus@cad.UUCP (Wayne A. Christopher)
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Subject: Re: Re: So what about the CD newsgroup?
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 14:18:16 EST
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I don't see the big deal about cd.  It's a very simple command really.
Here is everything you need to know about it:

CD(1)               UNIX Programmer's 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 direc-
     tory is to be sought as a subdirectory if it is not a sub-
     directory of the current directory; see the description of
     the cdpath variable in csh(1).

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