-L Handle the operand dot-dot logically; symbolic link components shall not be resolved before dot- dot components are processed (see steps 8. and 9. in the DESCRIPTION). |
-P Handle the operand dot-dot physically; symbolic link components shall be resolved before dot-dot components are processed (see step 7. in the DESCRIPTION). |
directory An absolute or relative pathname of the directory that shall become the new working directory. The interpretation of a relative pathname by cd depends on the -L option and the CDPATH and PWD environment variables. If directory is an empty string, the results are unspecified. - When a hyphen is used as the operand, this shall be equivalent to the command: cd "$OLDPWD" && pwd which changes to the previous working directory and then writes its name. |