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chdir (or cd) is a command to change the working directory (change directory). It is part of many operating systems and programming languages. On many OS `chdir()` also is a system call.

cd, sometimes also available as chdir (change directory), is a command line command to change the current working directory in operating systems such as Unix, DOS, OS/2, AmigaOS (where if a bare path is given, cd is implied), Windows, and Linux. It is also available for use in shell scripts and batch files.

More details see cd Wikipedia article

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chdir() - no such file or directory

int main(int argc, char **argv) { char input[150]; char change[2] = "cd"; char *directory; while(1) { prompt(); fgets(input, 150, stdin); if(strncmp(change, input, 2) == 0) { directory = strtok(input, " "); …
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Changing working directory in C?

Im new to C and am having trouble using chdir(). I use a function to get user input then I create a folder from this and attempt to chdir() into that folder and create two more files. Howver when I try to access the folder via finder (manually) I…
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Can chdir() accept relative paths?

In C on linux, can the chdir() function accept a relative path?
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How does fchdir work?

In it's main page it says: fchdir() is identical to chdir(); the only difference is that the directory is given as an open file descriptor. And the prototype is given as following: int chdir(const char *path); int fchdir(int fd); My question…
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Perl directory change from Windows cmd.exe

According to the manual, chdir, Changes the working directory to EXPR, if possible. This script, when executed from cmd.exe: my $path = 'C:\\some\\path\\'; print "$path\n"; chdir("$path") or die "fail $!"; results in this output: C:\some\path\ but…
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chdir() & multithreading in C

Is it possible to use chdir() or some other command to change the directory in a thread without affecting the cwd of the other threads ? I'm using pthread.h. *I'm trying to write a server program that handles multiple client connections and…
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chdir not declared, compilation error g++

I am trying to compile a relatively simple application that I obtained from the web.. When running make I get the following error: In file included from main.cpp:2:0: os.h: In function ‘void myOpenDir(const char*)’: os.h:13:16: error: ‘chdir’ was…
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Using Python, how to download multiple files from a subdirectory on FTP server into a desired directory on local machine?

Using python program, I was able to download multiple source files from a FTP server (using ftplib and os libraries) to my local machine. These source file resides at a particular directory inside the FTP server. I was able to download the source…
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How can I change directories in a thread safe way?

I'd like to spawn 2 threads and move each one into a different working directory. std::thread t1([](){ boost::filesystem::current_path("/place/one"); // operate within "place/one" }); std::thread t2([](){ …
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What can cause the working directory to be changed (if `Dir.chdir` is not called)?

I have a script that uses Dir.getwd to get the current working directory multiple times. Then it does things with it. This works for 99.9% of the users all of the time but for some users it returns an unexpected value in some cases. This causes an…
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Change directory in REXX exec running in z/OS USS?

I'm in the USS shell under TSO, and I have this exec (named tryit): /* rexx */ "cd /differentdir" "pwd" Here's the result: > pwd /origdir > tryit /origdir In other words, the effects of the cd command appear to last only for the duration of the…
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chdir programmatically

In Windows -- and probably Unix for that matter -- using the chdir() function in a (32-bit) program doesn't change the directory when the program exits. (It does in a 16-bit Windows program.) Does anybody know how to do that in a Windows 32-bit…
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Batch script fails with "The system cannot find the path specified"

I have written the following batch script, which runs another batch script on a directory, or, with addition of a flag, on a directory tree and then on an equivalent directory or directory tree on a different drive (Z:). No matter which option I…
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If I chdir within a thread, will that affect the cwd of the parent program?

If I chdir within a thread, will that affect the cwd of the parent program?
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inspect.getmodule's result change after os.chdir

Some code of mine sprung a bug seemingly out of nowhere. When I tracked it down, I found that evaluating inspect.getmodule with the same (identical) argument before and after executing os.chdir gives different results. (FWIW, I'm running Python…
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