SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION causes CD and PUSHD to not persist

Question

I am trying to use setlocal enabledelayedexpansion and cd together in a batch script, which seems to not persist changes back to shell.

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Answer 1

Blorgbeard provided an explanation as to why CD issued after SETLOCAL does not persist after ENDLOCAL (could be explicit or implicit).

Here is an interesting work-around. The PUSHD stack is independent of the environment that is saved/restored by SETLOCAL/ENDLOCAL. So the following simple sequence will preserve the directory change:

@echo off
setlocal
cd somePath
pushd .
endlocal
popd

Not very useful if somePath is constant - you could just as easily issue the CD after the ENDLOCAL. But it can be very useful if somePath is dynamic.