change-directory

Changes the current directory.

hcl

change-directory directory => current-dir

directory⇩

A pathname designator specifying the new directory.

current-dir

A physical pathname.

The function change-directory changes the current directory to that specified by directory. directory may be an absolute or relative pathname.

Use get-working-directory to find the current directory.

change-directory should not be used in multithreaded applications. In general we discourage you from using it.