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pwd — return working directory name

pwd [-LP]

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

The following options are available:

If the 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.
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).

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

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

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

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

In csh(1) the command 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-9.2