View Single Post
  #3  
Old October 28th 11, 12:06 PM
Techrupert Techrupert is offline
Registered User
 
First recorded activity by PCbanter: Oct 2011
Location: Philippines
Posts: 5
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by dotancohen View Post
‎Thank you Shimer. I am intimately familiar with the cd command in unix systems. My question was regarding specific use cases of the command in Windows. Thanks.
Hi, hope this helps.

Displays the name of or changes the current directory.

CHDIR [/D] [drive:][path]
CHDIR [..]
CD [/D] [drive:][path]
CD [..]

.. Specifies that you want to change to the parent directory.

Type CD drive: to display the current directory in the specified drive.
Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory.

Use the /D switch to change current drive in addition to changing current
directory for a drive.

If Command Extensions are enabled CHDIR changes as follows:

The current directory string is converted to use the same case as
the on disk names. So CD C:\TEMP would actually set the current
directory to C:\Temp if that is the case on disk.

CHDIR command does not treat spaces as delimiters, so it is possible to
CD into a subdirectory name that contains a space without surrounding
the name with quotes. For example:

cd \winnt\profiles\username\programs\start menu

is the same as:

cd "\winnt\profiles\username\programs\start menu"

which is what you would have to type if extensions were disabled.
Ads