CDH(1)

🦋 CDH(1) — fish-shell edition ✨

okay so this is the manual page for cdh, straight out of fish-shell (yes bestie, that fish 💅), and it's genuinely one of those little commands that changes your whole life. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cdh — change to a recently visited directory. that's it. that's the vibe. you hop back to somewhere you've already been, no typing out the whole giant path like a clown 😭

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cdh [DIRECTORY]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so <italic>DIRECTORY</italic> is optional, and that's the whole magic of it 👑

cdh with no arguments pulls up a list of your recently visited directories (the directory-history situation — you know the one) and just… shows it to you. then you pick one by hitting its letter or its **number`. easy. and if you're a tab gremlin like me, you can also press Tab to bring up the completion pager and select an item from the list that way 🌈

cdh with a single argument? no menu, no choosing, it's literally just equivalent to:

cd DIRECTORY

periodt. 💅

ngl, there's a caveat you need to know: the cd command only keeps the 25 most recently visited directories in the history. twenty-five. that's the cap, bestie, no negotiating 😭

the history itself lives in the dirprev and dirnext variables, and cdh is the one manipulating them behind the scenes 🧚 if you go and make those universal variables, your cd history gets shared across all your fish instances — every single one, same history, iconic behavior fr fr ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• the dirh command — prints out the directory history for you 🍓
• the prevd command — moves you backward through it 💜
• the nextd command — moves you forward through it 🔥

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💖 Copyright 💖

copyright belongs to the fish-shell developers 🫶

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this page is from fish-shell version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026 — go forth and cdh responsibly, mwah 💋