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PWD(1)                  NetBSD General Commands Manual                  PWD(1)


NAME

     pwd -- return working directory name


SYNOPSIS

     pwd [-LP]


DESCRIPTION

     pwd writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to the
     standard output.

     The following options are available:

     -L      If the PWD environment variable is an absolute pathname that con-
             tains neither "/./" nor "/../" and references the current direc-
             tory, then PWD is assumed to be the name of the current direc-
             tory.

     -P      Print the physical path to the current working directory, with
             symbolic links in the path resolved.

     The default for the pwd command is -P.

     pwd is usually provided as a shell builtin (which may have a different
     default).


EXIT STATUS

     The pwd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.


SEE ALSO

     cd(1), csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), getcwd(3)


STANDARDS

     The pwd utility is expected to be conforming to IEEE Std 1003.1
     (``POSIX.1''), except that the default is -P not -L.


HISTORY

     A pwd utility appeared in Version 5 AT&T UNIX.


BUGS

     In csh(1) the command dirs is always faster (although it can give a dif-
     ferent answer in the rare case that the current directory or a containing
     directory was moved after the shell descended into it).

     pwd -L relies on the file system having unique inode numbers.  If this is
     not true (e.g., on FAT file systems) then pwd -L may fail to detect that
     PWD is incorrect.

NetBSD 10.1                     August 12, 2016                    NetBSD 10.1