I have a weird issue that I first noticed in VS Code but can replicate in terminal, and it's that when I try to cd to a folder, nothing happens. Here's my terminal output to demonstrate:
rh-macbook@AS1554 ~ % pwd
/Users/rh-macbook
rh-macbook@AS1554 ~ % ls
Applications Library Public
Desktop Movies node_modules
Documents Music package-lock.json
Downloads Pictures package.json
rh-macbook@AS1554 ~ % cd Desktop
rh-macbook@AS1554 ~ % ls
Applications Library Public
Desktop Movies node_modules
Documents Music package-lock.json
Downloads Pictures package.json
Here's an example from within VS Code on a demo project
rh-macbook@AS1554 website-demo % pwd
/Users/rh-macbook/Desktop/Repos/website-demo
rh-macbook@AS1554 website-demo % ls
README.md my-app
rh-macbook@AS1554 website-demo % cd my-app
rh-macbook@AS1554 website-demo % ls
README.md my-app
rh-macbook@AS1554 website-demo %
This is a work-issued laptop but I seem to be the only person with this issue.
Device: M2 Pro 16GB MacOS: Sonoma 14.6.1 (23G93)
I've tried cd /Desktop, cd desktop, cd ~/Desktop and all variations. It just does not seem to be switching the folder.
There is no error code.
rh-macbook@AS1554 ~ % echo $?
0
rh-macbook@AS1554 ~ % echo $HOME
/Users/rh-macbook
Answer:
As per the answer below, cd had been aliased to cdnvm. This happened when I followed the instructions on NVM's readme to automatically change node versions per .nvmrc file. Running this command fixed it:
unalias cd
Check what is output of which cd. Looks like either your cd binary is corrupted or some alias is running instead of cd itself.
P.S. - It was alias issue. output of which cd was aliased to cdnvm