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Change the current directory ofscreen
to the specified directory or, if called without an argument, to your home directory (the value of the environment variable$HOME
). All windows that are created by means of thescreen
command from within .screenrc or by means of C-a : screen ... or C-a c use this as their default directory. Without achdir
command, this would be the directory from whichscreen
was invoked. Hardcopy and log files are always written to the window's default directory, not the current directory of the process running in the window. You can use this command multiple times in your .screenrc to start various windows in different default directories, but the lastchdir
value will affect all the windows you create interactively.