'cd' does 'pwd' with relative path but not with absolute path - documented?

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 10:56 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 03.07.2020, 09:28 +0100 schrieb Chris Green:
> > I have only recently noticed that when running bash in a terminal
> > 'cd' acts differently for relative and absolute paths.

This probably means that you have CDPATH set. Read what "man bash" has
to say about cd, and I think you'll find your answer. This is the
effect:

kauer at kt1:~/dev/temp$ pwd
/home/kauer/dev/temp
kauer at kt1:~/dev/temp$ ls -lad temp
drwxrwxr-x 9 kauer kauer 4096 Jun  4 10:48 temp
kauer at kt1:~/dev/temp$ cd temp
kauer at kt1:~/dev/temp/temp$ cd ..
kauer at kt1:~/dev/temp$ export CDPATH=.
kauer at kt1:~/dev/temp$ cd temp
/home/kauer/dev/temp/temp

Regards, K.

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