3.6 Built-in commands

Here is a list of built-in commands that Eshell knows about:

cd

This command changes the current working directory. Usually, it is invoked as `cd foo' where foo is the new working directory. But cd knows about a few special arguments:

When it receives no argument at all, it changes to the home directory.

Giving the command `cd -' changes back to the previous working directory (this is the same as `cd $-').

The command `cd =' shows the directory stack. Each line is numbered.

With `cd =foo', Eshell searches the directory stack for a directory matching the regular expression `foo' and changes to that directory.

With `cd -42', you can access the directory stack by number.