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Function `std.file.chdir`

Change directory to pathname. Equivalent to cd on Windows and POSIX.


						
				void chdir(R)
				(
				

				  R pathname
				

				)
				

				if (isSomeFiniteCharInputRange!R && !isConvertibleToString!R);
				

				

				void chdir(R)
				(
				

				  auto ref R pathname
				

				)
				

				if (isConvertibleToString!R);

Parameters

Name	Description
pathname	the directory to step into

Throws

FileException on error.

Example

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;
import std.algorithm.sorting : sort;
import std.array : array;
import std.path : buildPath;

auto cwd = getcwd;
auto dir = deleteme ~ "dir";
dir.mkdir;
scope(exit) cwd.chdir, dir.rmdirRecurse;

dir.buildPath("a").write(".");
dir.chdir; // step into dir
"b".write(".");
assert(dirEntries(".", SpanMode.shallow).array.sort.equal(
    [".".buildPath("a"), ".".buildPath("b")]
));

Authors

Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu, Jonathan M Davis

License

Boost License 1.0.