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What does the command CD do?

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Mar 15, 20262347 views
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Problem

Not realising I had caps-lock on, I typed into the command prompt on my mac. Surprisingly, it didn't error. shows me . And if I examine that file, it looks like this: I guess it's something to do with translating upper to lower case, but is completely opaque to me. tells me "no manual entry". Can s…

Error Output

#!/bin/sh
# $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/alias/generic.sh,v 1.2 2005/10/24 22:32:19 cperciva Exp $
# This file is in the public domain.
builtin `echo ${0##*…

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Seems it doesn't do much at all: Apple mailing list link "I'm going on some old memories here, so I cannot provide a very detailed explanation, but the reason /usr/bin/cd exists is due to a POSIX requirement that relates to aliases and being able to…

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