How do I turn of "auto-echo" in bash when I 'cd'?

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Published on 2010-01-03T00:23:34Z Indexed on 2012/11/21 11:09 UTC
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I don't know when this started happening but now, every time I cd to a directory it echoes the path right before it changes directories. This happens when I log into a server but doesn't happen on my local machine. The server is running Linux. My local machine is running Mac OS X.

I searched the Google as well as looked at the bash man page but I couldn't find anything. My .bashrc/.bash_profile doesn't have anything related to 'cd' (that I know of).

How do I modify this "feature"?

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