SUDO: CD: Command not found
May 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: I was trying to delete a remnant folder from trying to mount my work harddrive using NTFS-3G, but the folder it left behind in /media/System caused me to not to be able to re-mount the harddrive later on.
So, I tried to delete it, but got the first error “Permission Denied”, then I tried with SUDO, but even just when trying to change to directory, I got the error “SUDO: CD: Command not found”.. Now how come SUDO can’t find CD, a basic bash command. Don’t ask me, but here it the workaround.
While in the Terminal, type “SUDO SH”, this opens a new shell at administrator level and now you can access highlevel protected folders and delete them using normal bash commands.
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‘cd’ is built into your shell, which is why you can’t ‘sudo cd’ (man bash)
the best way to get a proper root environment is to ‘sudo su -’ (this gives you a root shell with all the root PATH and other environment variables that aren’t available to a normal user)