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I came across this question and showing the current path after cd is exactly what I'm looking for.

However, I can't manage to get this behavior.

What I've tried is this:

export CDPATH='.:/home/alexzeitler'

and

export CDPATH=$HOME

But after cd, the current path is not shown.

I want to use it using bash and zsh and a solution without alias or function is preferred (those are known).

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  • You mean after cd alone without argument? That's meant to chdir() to your home directory, that's independant of $CDPATH. $CDPATH is only involved when cd is given relative paths.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Commented Apr 25, 2024 at 14:15
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    Quite dangerous to export CDPATH as that could affect scripts that use cd.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Commented Apr 25, 2024 at 14:16
  • See also the posixcd option in zsh for the path to be printed even by non-interactive invocations of zsh when $CDPATH is involved.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Commented Apr 25, 2024 at 14:18
  • Note that cd(1p) states: "If a non-empty directory name from CDPATH is used, or if cd - is used, an absolute pathname of the new working directory shall be written to the standard output as follows: "%s\n", <new directory> Otherwise, there shall be no output." Other conditions described there make it so cd without arguments would never result in outputting the directory, regardless of CDPATH. Of course, cd with non-slash-prefixed arguments works; for example: cd; mkdir -p src; CDPATH=$HOME; cd src
    – Vilinkameni
    Commented May 7, 2024 at 13:20

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