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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion: CD_SILENT option.
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> Just small suggestion - add CD_SILENT option to make `cd' silently change
> to non-local directory (using CDPATH).

It is really unnecessary since it can be done by a shell function wrapper
around cd.  Just redirect the output of cd.  That message goes to stdout so
if you redirect only that error messages are still visible o stderr.

Example:

cd () { builtin cd "$@" > /dev/null ; }

Zoltan