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sudoku

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[SOLVED] Is "man cd" outdated?

The synopsis of "$ man cd" is

cd [-L|-P] [directory]

but "$ cd --help" gives me more options:

cd [-L|[-P [-e]] [-@]] [dir]

There's a difference also between https://linuxcommand.org/lc3_man_pages/cdh.html and https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cd.1p.html

Is the cd manpage outdated or is there another explanation?

Last edited by sudoku (2021-12-23 19:00:10)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Is "man cd" outdated?

There is no 'cd' executable on Linux, your shell will have it's own implementation. From the syntax, I'd guess you're using bash, so

$ man bash | less -p "cd \["

will give you the manpage extract for that shell.

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Re: [SOLVED] Is "man cd" outdated?

cd(1p) is the POSIX man page:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9 … 18edition/

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