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Executing commands on a Linux system with C/C++

I want to know that how cd command in linux can be implemented in c/c++/java?How can you make a c/c++/java file in linux which searches in hard disk for a particular type of file?

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Why would you want to implement the 'cd' command? It wouldn't do you any good. What are you trying to accomplish overall?

You can use the system() command to execute commands in C/C++, but if you are trying to find a file, you'll probably need to use the API.
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