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Chdir
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 - Command: chdir [directory]
     (none)
     Change the current directory of `screen' 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 the `screen' command from within `.screenrc'
     or by means of `C-a : screen ...' or `C-a c' use this as their
     default directory.  Without a `chdir' command, this would be the
     directory from which `screen' 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 last
     `chdir' value will affect all the windows you create interactively.