1.\" $OpenBSD: pwd.1,v 1.21 2014/05/28 14:16:27 jmc 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: May 28 2014 $ 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.Op Fl LP 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48utility prints the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 49the standard output. 50.Pp 51The options are as follows: 52.Bl -tag -width Ds 53.It Fl L 54If the 55.Ev PWD 56environment variable is an absolute pathname that references the 57current directory and doesn't contain path components of "." or "..", 58then 59.Ev PWD 60is printed as the name of the current directory. 61Otherwise, act as if the 62.Fl P 63option was given. 64.It Fl P 65Print the physical path to the current working directory, with symbolic 66links in the path resolved. 67.El 68.Pp 69The 70.Fl L 71and 72.Fl P 73options override each other and the command's actions are determined 74by the last one specified. 75The default if no options are given is 76.Fl P . 77.Pp 78For an explanation of the directory hierarchy, 79see 80.Xr hier 7 . 81.Sh ENVIRONMENT 82.Bl -tag -width PWD 83.It Ev PWD 84The presumptive logical path to the current working directory. 85.El 86.Sh EXIT STATUS 87.Ex -std pwd 88.Sh SEE ALSO 89.Xr ksh 1 , 90.Xr getcwd 3 , 91.Xr hier 7 92.Sh STANDARDS 93The 94.Nm 95utility is compliant with the 96.St -p1003.1-2008 97specification, 98except the standard says the default if no options are given 99should be to behave as if 100.Fl L 101had been specified. 102.Sh HISTORY 103An 104.Nm 105utility appeared in 106.At v5 . 107Support for the 108.Fl L 109option was added in 110.Ox 5.6 . 111.Sh CAVEATS 112.Nm 113also exists as a built-in to 114.Xr ksh 1 , 115which may have a different default behavior. 116