diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 40970210d07..c8db404e03c 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -250,6 +250,10 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     HADOOP-3957. Change MutableQuantiles to use a shared thread for rolling
     over metrics. (Andrew Wang via todd)
 
+    HADOOP-8386. hadoop script doesn't work if 'cd' prints to stdout
+    (default behavior in some bash setups (esp. Ubuntu))
+    (Chiristopher Berner and Andy Isaacson via harsh)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-7761. Improve the performance of raw comparisons. (todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
index 486465aa139..f57d9ab862f 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 bin=`which $0`
 bin=`dirname ${bin}`
-bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+bin=`cd "$bin" > /dev/null; pwd`
  
 DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR="$bin"/../libexec
 HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=${HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR:-$DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR}
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
index 06b8b5acf39..2b446d1dadc 100755
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 bin=`which $0`
 bin=`dirname ${bin}`
-bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+bin=`cd "$bin" > /dev/null; pwd`
 
 DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR="$bin"/../libexec
 HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=${HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR:-$DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR}
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
index 86560c12116..930885cdf16 100755
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 bin=`which $0`
 bin=`dirname ${bin}`
-bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+bin=`cd "$bin" > /dev/null; pwd`
 
 DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR="$bin"/../libexec
 HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=${HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR:-$DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR}
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
index b376fd13abf..c03a1006c60 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 #
 
 bin=`dirname "${BASH_SOURCE-$0}"`
-bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+bin=`cd "$bin" > /dev/null; pwd`
 
 DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR="$bin"/../libexec
 HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=${HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR:-$DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR}