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I"GChanges the current working directory of the process to the given ;TI"Gstring. When called without an argument, changes the directory to ;TI"Athe value of the environment variable HOME
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I"CIf a block is given, it is passed the name of the new current ;TI"Cdirectory, and the block is executed with that as the current ;TI"Jdirectory. The original working directory is restored when the block ;TI"Gexits. The return value of chdir
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open.;T@o:RDoc::Markup::Verbatim; [I""Dir.chdir("/var/spool/mail")
;TI"puts Dir.pwd
;TI"Dir.chdir("/tmp") do
;TI" puts Dir.pwd
;TI" Dir.chdir("/usr") do
;TI" puts Dir.pwd
;TI" end
;TI" puts Dir.pwd
;TI" end
;TI"puts Dir.pwd
;T:@format0o;
; [I"produces:;T@o;; [
I"/var/spool/mail
;TI"
/tmp
;TI"
/usr
;TI"
/tmp
;TI"/var/spool/mail;T;
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