1.\" $OpenBSD: pwd.1,v 1.15 2009/01/04 11:19:55 sobrado Exp $ 2.\" $NetBSD: pwd.1,v 1.10 1995/09/07 06:47:30 jtc Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 5.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 8.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 9.\" 10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12.\" are met: 13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 16.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 17.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 18.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)pwd.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 35.\" 36.Dd $Mdocdate: January 4 2009 $ 37.Dt PWD 1 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm pwd 41.Nd return working directory name 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm pwd 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47utility prints the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 48the standard output. 49Both the Bourne shell 50.Pq Xr sh 1 51and Korn shell 52.Pq Xr ksh 1 53have their own built-in version of 54.Nm pwd . 55For an explanation of the directory hierarchy, 56see 57.Xr hier 7 . 58.Pp 59.Ex -std pwd 60.Sh SEE ALSO 61.Xr csh 1 , 62.Xr ksh 1 , 63.Xr sh 1 , 64.Xr getcwd 3 , 65.Xr hier 7 66.Sh STANDARDS 67The 68.Nm 69utility is compliant with the 70.St -p1003.1-2004 71specification. 72.Sh BUGS 73In 74.Xr csh 1 , 75the command 76.Ic dirs 77is always faster (although it can give a different answer in the rare case 78that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 79the shell descended into it). 80