PWD(1) | General Commands Manual | PWD(1) |
pwd
—
pwd |
[-LP ] |
pwd
writes the absolute pathname of the current working
directory to the standard output.
The following options are available:
-L
PWD
environment variable is an absolute
pathname that contains neither "/./" nor "/../" and
references the current directory, then PWD
is
assumed to be the name of the current directory.-P
The default for the pwd
command is
-P
.
pwd
is usually provided as a shell builtin
(which may have a different default).
pwd
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
pwd
utility is expected to be conforming to
IEEE Std 1003.1 (“POSIX.1”), except that
the default is -P
not -L
.
pwd
utility appeared in
Version 5 AT&T UNIX.
dirs
is always faster (although it can give a
different 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.
August 12, 2016 | NetBSD 9.4 |