You can't cd in xargs because xargs is not a shell... or something. You have to invoke bash.
ls -1 directory | xargs -n1 -I{} bash -c 'cd {}; echo foobar'
Use -t if you want to see the resulting command executed.
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Using `xargs` to `cd` into places and do things #blog
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