trying to CD as sudo.

[Dazed_75]

Two things:
1-there is no need to sudo for a cd
2-cd is a built-in command, not a separate program that sudo can find

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm on CentOS 5 and I notice that when I issue a CD command on the CL as
> sudo, such as "sudo cd /var/log/httpd/" I get the message "sudo: cd: command
> not found".  The tab key does not return any results either.
>
> I'm kinda new to sudo.  I used to just become root.  I'm trying to practice
> better behavior.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
>
>
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