1.\" $NetBSD: pwd.1,v 1.21 2002/10/02 09:57:14 wiz 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 20.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 22.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 23.\" without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 26.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 27.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 28.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 29.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 30.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 31.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 32.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 33.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 34.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 35.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.\" @(#)pwd.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 38.\" 39.Dd November 2, 1998 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 49.Nm 50writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 51the standard output. 52.Pp 53The following options are available: 54.Bl -tag -width indent 55.It Fl L 56Print the logical path to the current working directory, as indicated 57by the shell in the environment variable 58.Ev PWD , 59if possible. 60.It Fl P 61Print the physical path to the current working directory, with symbolic 62links in the path resolved. 63This is the default. 64.El 65.Sh EXIT STATUS 66The 67.Nm 68utility exits 0 on success, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurs. 69.Sh SEE ALSO 70.Xr cd 1 , 71.Xr csh 1 , 72.Xr getcwd 3 73.Sh STANDARDS 74The 75.Nm 76utility is expected to be conforming to 77.St -p1003.2 . 78The options are extensions to the standard. 79.Sh BUGS 80In 81.Xr csh 1 82the command 83.Ic dirs 84is always faster (although it can give a different answer in the rare case 85that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 86the shell descended into it). 87