cd(n) Tcl Built-In Commands cd(n) ______________________________________________________________________________ NAME cd - Change working directory SYNOPSIS cd ?dirName? ______________________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION Change the current working directory to dirName, or to the home directory (as specified in the HOME environment variable) if dirName is not given. Returns an empty string. Note that the current working directory is a per-process resource; the cd command changes the working directory for all interpreters and (in a threaded environment) all threads. EXAMPLES Change to the home directory of the user fred: cd ~fred Change to the directory lib that is a sibling directory of the current one: cd ../lib SEE ALSO filename(n), glob(n), pwd(n) KEYWORDS working directory Tcl cd(n)