cd(1)

NAME
cd

cd - change directory

  Synopsis

cd [DIRECTORY]

  Description
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 prevd. 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

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
See also the cdh command for changing to a recently visited directory.