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.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 8.\" 9.\" @(#)pwd.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 04/28/95 10.\" 11.Dd 12.Dt PWD 1 13.Os BSD 4 14.Sh NAME 15.Nm pwd 16.Nd return working directory name 17.Sh SYNOPSIS 18.Nm pwd 19.Sh DESCRIPTION 20.Nm Pwd 21writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 22the standard output. 23.Pp 24The pwd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 25.Sh STANDARDS 26The 27.Nm pwd 28command is expected to be 29.St -p1003.2 30compatible . 31.Sh SEE ALSO 32.Xr cd 1 , 33.Xr csh 1 , 34.Xr getcwd 3 35.Sh BUGS 36In 37.Xr csh 1 38the command 39.Ic dirs 40is always faster (although it can give a different answer in the rare case 41that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 42the shell descended into it). 43