1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)pwd.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 36.\" $FreeBSD: src/bin/pwd/pwd.1,v 1.10.2.5 2002/06/17 11:04:22 tjr Exp $ 37.\" $DragonFly: src/bin/pwd/pwd.1,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:22:50 dillon Exp $ 38.\" 39.Dd February 4, 2002 40.Dt PWD 1 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm pwd 44.Nd return working directory name 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm 47.Op Fl LP 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm 51utility writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 52the standard output. 53.Pp 54Some shells may provide a builtin 55.Nm 56command which is similar or identical to this utility. 57Consult the 58.Xr builtin 1 59manual page. 60.Pp 61The options are as follows: 62.Bl -tag -width indent 63.It Fl L 64Display the logical current working directory. 65.It Fl P 66Display the physical current working directory (all symbolic links resolved). 67.El 68.Pp 69If no options are specified, the 70.Fl P 71option is assumed. 72.Sh ENVIRONMENT 73Environment variables used by 74.Nm : 75.Bl -tag -width ".Ev PWD" 76.It Ev PWD 77Logical current working directory. 78.El 79.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 80.Ex -std 81.Sh STANDARDS 82The 83.Nm 84utility conforms to 85.St -p1003.1-2001 . 86.Sh SEE ALSO 87.Xr builtin 1 , 88.Xr cd 1 , 89.Xr csh 1 , 90.Xr sh 1 , 91.Xr getcwd 3 92.Sh BUGS 93In 94.Xr csh 1 95the command 96.Ic dirs 97is always faster because it is built into that shell. 98However, it can give a different answer in the rare case 99that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 100the shell descended into it. 101.Pp 102The 103.Fl L 104option does not work unless the 105.Ev PWD 106environment variable is exported by the shell. 107