1.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)pwd.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 03/14/91 7.\" 8.Vx 9.Vx 10.Dd 11.Dt PWD 1 12.Os BSD 4 13.Sh NAME 14.Nm pwd 15.Nd return working directory name 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.Nm pwd 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19.Nm Pwd 20writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 21the standard output. 22.Pp 23The pwd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 24.Sh STANDARDS 25The pwd function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible 26.Sh SEE ALSO 27.Xr cd 1 , 28.Xr csh 1 , 29.Xr getwd 3 30.Sh BUGS 31In 32.Xr csh 1 33the command 34.Ic dirs 35is always faster (although it can give a different answer in the rare case 36that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 37the shell descended into it). 38