On Wed, 03 Jun 1998, Abandon_All_Hope wrote:
>I have been using cd fine for awhile.
>But if I do a 
>%which cd 

cd is a shell built in. Unlike most other commands, which live in /bin
or /usr/bin, cd must be a shell built in, otherwise it can't work. (In
other words, if cd were a regular executable, there would be no way
for it to change the directory; the current directory is something that
is different for every process.)
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