cd is the "change directory" command offered by most shells. For CD-ROMs, please use the [cd-rom] tag.
Questions tagged [cd]
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How to find folders in Linux?
I'm new to Linux and just downloaded WSL2 and ubuntu on my Windows PC.
I started the Windows terminal, chose Ubuntu from there, and wanted to move to the Desktop by using cd.
However, I could not find the Desktop folder.
First, I did "ls /" and many…
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How to open Clawpack directories?
We have to do simulate a tsunami for a school project using Geoclaw with Python, and I came across this tsunami example project on the Geoclaw official website: $CLAW/geoclaw/examples/tsunami/chile2010 .
I thought it was a thing preinstalled with…
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Simple Git Bash .sh Script on windows to change directory does not work. Basic change directory in .sh script
Trying to make a script to automate activating a virtual environment for my django project.
Here is my script which I save as 'activatevirt.sh'. The first couple lines work, but then
when it gets to the lines to change directory it doesn't change…
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bash script cd command affecting tee command
I've a script to perform git operations.
Parse the file for the repo, source and new branch
Clone the repo
check if the new branch already exists. skip this repo if it does
create new branch:
cd into the folder
git branch new_branch
git checkout…
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Git Bash: My Desktop folder not found help me
$ cd /Desktop
bash: cd: /Desktop: No such file or directory
and start. command finally I have got the Desktop folder
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CD strange behaviour
I need somebody to explain me what is happening in this sequence of "cd.." commands (note there is no space between "cd" and "..")…
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How to define a custom directory so that I can cd directory in Matlab
Suppose I have a directory
cur = 'C:\Windows\debug';
Then I can run cd(cur) now. But I'm not used to using the function format. I hope I can use cd cur to change the current folder directly. Is this possible in MATLAB?
Edit: Because I'm getting the…
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How to get the current user name on the computer running a batch file?
This is what I need:
@echo off
title H1Z1 Launcher By Grim0
cd C:\Users\%ComputerName%\AppData\LocalLow\Daybreak Game Company\Digests\H1Z1-KingKill
That's the part that I tried but it didn't work.
%ComputerName% in path should be the user name of…
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What do I put instead of a space when changing directory?
C:\Users\First Last\
What do I replace the space with? I've tried multiple variations but nothing works.
C:\Users\First-Last\
C:\Users\First_Last\
C:\Users\First`Last\
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Why does "cd -" behave as it does?
What does cd - exactly do ? ( the change directory command, plus a dash )
I noticed that if I run it in my /home/user folder repeatedly it outputs either /home/user or /home, this changes if I run it from a different folder.
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cron scheduler how to cd to a location and execute a shell script
I am trying to run a shell script from Cron at reboot. The script is located in /var/gee. The script is named _startTest.sh. This is the command I have used in cron is:
cd /var/gee && ./_startTest.sh
The script doesn't run. Any ideas what I am…
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Segmentation fault when I change directory in C
I want to make a program that imitates the use of cd in UNIX. Obviously the best option is chdir. However when the user types cd /home I get Segmentation fault. When I use gdb, it prints:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.…
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How to imitate cd command in Java
Giving you two path, one is for the original path, and another is the parameter of the cd command.
For Example:
users/documents and stackOverFlow should return users/documents/stackOverFlow
and
users/documents and ../stackOverFlow should return…
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Move directory in bash
I need to use "cd" on a shell script: move to the directory $home/folder/sub-folder
and then check with a conditional statement if the directory's size is more than 2 MB.
How could I accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
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How to change directories in Python?
I need to change the directory in the cmd with the command cd.
For example cd users/desktop. But when I run the script, nothing happens.
I have already tried with the following commands:
os.chdir("cd Documents/archive")
os.system("cd…
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