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Daniel Oscar
Asked: 2021-02-15 13:58:40 +0800 CST

How do I stop cd command from printing absolute path everytime?

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I edited my .bashrc to add more directories to $CDPATH. It looks like this:

export CDPATH=".:~:~/LEI/2_ano/2_smt:~/LEI/2_ano/1_smt"

But now every time I use the cd command, it prints the absolute path. For example, if I do cd ~/Downloads, the result is

/home/user_name/Downloads
User_prompt:~/Downloads$
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1 Answers

  1. I don't think you can stop it from printing, since that's the documented behavior:

    If a non-empty directory name from CDPATH is used, or if ‘-’ is the first argument, and the directory change is successful, the absolute pathname of the new working directory is written to the standard output.

    However you could overload cd with a shell function that redirects standard output:

    cd ()
{
    command cd "$@" > /dev/null
}
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