CHDIR — Change working directory

Description

Change current working directory to a specified path.

This intrinsic is provided in both subroutine and function forms; however, only one form can be used in any given program unit.

Syntax

CALL CHDIR(NAME [, STATUS])
STATUS = CHDIR(NAME)

Arguments

NAME The type shall be CHARACTER of default kind and shall specify a valid path within the file system.
STATUS (Optional) INTEGER status flag of the default kind. Returns 0 on success, and a system specific and nonzero error code otherwise.

Example



PROGRAM test_chdir

  CHARACTER(len=255) :: path

  CALL getcwd(path)

  WRITE(*,*) TRIM(path)

  CALL chdir("/tmp")

  CALL getcwd(path)

  WRITE(*,*) TRIM(path)

END PROGRAM

Standard

GNU extension

Class

Subroutine, function