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		_k9eq on Sept 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux command line for you and me 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.

remram on Sept 19, 2022 [–]

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

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