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| <h3 class="section">8.47 <code>CHDIR</code> — Change working directory</h3> |
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| <p><a name="index-CHDIR-517"></a><a name="index-system_002c-working-directory-518"></a> |
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| <dt><em>Description</em>:<dd>Change current working directory to a specified path. |
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| <p>This intrinsic is provided in both subroutine and function forms; however, |
| only one form can be used in any given program unit. |
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| <br><dt><em>Standard</em>:<dd>GNU extension |
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| <br><dt><em>Class</em>:<dd>Subroutine, function |
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| <br><dt><em>Syntax</em>:<dd> |
| <p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="80%"><code>CALL CHDIR(NAME [, STATUS])</code> |
| <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="80%"><code>STATUS = CHDIR(NAME)</code> |
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| <br><dt><em>Arguments</em>:<dd> |
| <p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="15%"><var>NAME</var> </td><td valign="top" width="70%">The type shall be <code>CHARACTER</code> of default |
| kind and shall specify a valid path within the file system. |
| <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="15%"><var>STATUS</var> </td><td valign="top" width="70%">(Optional) <code>INTEGER</code> status flag of the default |
| kind. Returns 0 on success, and a system specific and nonzero error code |
| otherwise. |
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| <br><dt><em>Example</em>:<dd> |
| <pre class="smallexample"> PROGRAM test_chdir |
| CHARACTER(len=255) :: path |
| CALL getcwd(path) |
| WRITE(*,*) TRIM(path) |
| CALL chdir("/tmp") |
| CALL getcwd(path) |
| WRITE(*,*) TRIM(path) |
| END PROGRAM |
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| <br><dt><em>See also</em>:<dd><a href="GETCWD.html#GETCWD">GETCWD</a> |
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