trying to CD as sudo.

Dazed_75 lthielster at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 12:38:07 MST 2010


BTW, you could learn some of these answers yourself.  If you do a google
search on "sudo: cd: command not found", you will find a plethora of other
people asking the same thing and the answers they got.

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it always to be kept alive.
  - Thomas Jefferson
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