Re:Linux command line for you and me
by daptaq on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:55PM
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Yeah, that is why it isn't done. I am just pointing out the pointless fact that you could write a cd command that wasn't itself built-in.
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You could hook up to the parent process with ptrace or the equivalent debugging API of your OS of choice and forcibly change the directory. Stackoverflow even has an implementation: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/114262/81005