1.\" $NetBSD: pwd.1,v 1.25 2016/08/12 02:03:26 sevan Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 18.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 19.\" without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 22.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 24.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 25.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 26.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 27.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 28.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 29.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 31.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" @(#)pwd.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 34.\" 35.Dd August 12, 2016 36.Dt PWD 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm pwd 40.Nd return working directory name 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl LP 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45.Nm 46writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 47the standard output. 48.Pp 49The following options are available: 50.Bl -tag -width indent 51.It Fl L 52If the 53.Ev PWD 54environment variable is an absolute pathname that contains 55neither "/./" nor "/../" and references the current directory, then 56.Ev PWD 57is assumed to be the name of the current directory. 58.It Fl P 59Print the physical path to the current working directory, with symbolic 60links in the path resolved. 61.El 62.Pp 63The default for the 64.Nm 65command is 66.Fl P . 67.Pp 68.Nm 69is usually provided as a shell builtin (which may have a different 70default). 71.Sh EXIT STATUS 72The 73.Nm 74utility exits 0 on success, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurs. 75.Sh SEE ALSO 76.Xr cd 1 , 77.Xr csh 1 , 78.Xr ksh 1 , 79.Xr sh 1 , 80.Xr getcwd 3 81.Sh STANDARDS 82The 83.Nm 84utility is expected to be conforming to 85.St -p1003.1 , 86except that the default is 87.Fl P 88not 89.Fl L . 90.Sh HISTORY 91A 92.Nm 93utility appeared in 94.At v5 . 95.Sh BUGS 96In 97.Xr csh 1 98the command 99.Ic dirs 100is always faster (although it can give a different answer in the rare case 101that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 102the shell descended into it). 103.Pp 104.Nm 105.Fl L 106relies on the file system having unique inode numbers. 107If this is not true (e.g., on FAT file systems) then 108.Nm 109.Fl L 110may fail to detect that 111.Ev PWD 112is incorrect. 113