PWD(1) | General Commands Manual | PWD(1) |
pwd
— return
working directory name
pwd |
[-LP ] |
The pwd
utility prints the absolute
pathname of the current working directory to the standard output.
The options are as follows:
-L
PWD
environment variable is an absolute
pathname that references the current directory and doesn't contain path
components of "." or "..", then
PWD
is printed as the name of the current
directory. Otherwise, act as if the -P
option was
given.-P
The -L
and -P
options override each other and the command's actions are determined by the
last one specified. The default if no options are given is
-P
.
For an explanation of the directory hierarchy, see hier(7).
PWD
The pwd
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
The pwd
utility is compliant with the
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”)
specification, except the standard says the default if no options are given
should be to behave as if -L
had been specified.
An pwd
utility appeared in
Version 5 AT&T UNIX. Support for the
-L
option was added in OpenBSD
5.6.
pwd
also exists as a built-in to
ksh(1), which may have a different default
behavior.
May 28, 2014 | OpenBSD-current |