Ask HN: How old is the CD command?

  • Multics (begun 1967) preceded Unix (begun 1969) and influenced it very much. Here is a list of Multics commands:

    https://multicians.org/multics-commands.html

    In Multics, cwd was change_wdir, like Unix cd. There was a Multics cd command but it meant create_dir.

    CTSS (begun 1961) influenced Multics, Unix and pretty much every other timesharing system. Here are some of its commands:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System...

    In CTSS each user had only one directory so there was no cd command. But you can see the ancestors of some other Unix commands in this list.