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 `cd` can fail for a variety of reasons: misspelled paths, missing directories, missing permissions, broken symlinks and more.
 
-If/when it does, the script will keep going and do all its operations in the wrong direction. This can be messy, especially if the operations involve creating or deleting a lot of files.
+If/when it does, the script will keep going and do all its operations in the wrong directory. This can be messy, especially if the operations involve creating or deleting a lot of files.
 
 You should therefore always check the condition of `cd`, either with `|| exit` as suggested, or things like `if cd somewhere; then ...; fi`.