Re: find 'cd'
[email protected] Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:32:47 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.general |
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 10:42:54PM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I recall a program called 'cd' (/bin/cd?) > There is also a function (?) that is part of > ksh. > > Did this change since 2005? Ash Brad explained, it can't be an external program, and therefore it never was. You can build shell-*internal* aliases and functions that maybe change the prompt and then call the original, but you can't have useful cd as an external program because that would (in the Unix-like world) execute in a new process, resulting in all changes to the process being lost when it exits. -is