| 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:
-LPWD 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.-PThe 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 10.0 |