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Something similar to this Q&A, I know that cd will change current working directory in terminal to a new directory like this:

cd /path/to/new_directory

But I wonder how can I change current working directory only by typing for example:

/path/to/new_directory

followed by Enter, of course. Nothing more.

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answered 3 Years ago steaocyte · Accepted Answer

I just find out that by activating autocd shell option, using the following command:

shopt -s autocd

then

a command name that is the name of a directory is executed as if it
were the argument to the cd command

(from man bash, somewhere at the line 5131).

So it will actually let me use any directory as a command and will cd to it:

To make the change permanently, add the following line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file:

shopt -s autocd