How to change SBCL's current directory?

Question

It is very easy to change CLisp\'s current working directory:

>cat ~/.clisprc.lisp 
;;; The following lines added by ql:add-to-init-file:
#-quicklisp         


        

Answer 1

Had the same question. Turns out

(setf *default-pathname-defaults* (truename "./subdir"))

changes load path to subdir. If you don't want relative path, then

(setf *default-pathname-defaults* (truename "/absolute/path"))