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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)pwd.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 32.\" $FreeBSD$ 33.\" 34.Dd April 12, 2003 35.Dt PWD 1 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm pwd 39.Nd return working directory name 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl L | P 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 47the standard output. 48.Pp 49Some shells may provide a builtin 50.Nm 51command which is similar or identical to this utility. 52Consult the 53.Xr builtin 1 54manual page. 55.Pp 56The options are as follows: 57.Bl -tag -width indent 58.It Fl L 59Display the logical current working directory. 60.It Fl P 61Display the physical current working directory (all symbolic links resolved). 62.El 63.Pp 64If no options are specified, the 65.Fl P 66option is assumed. 67.Sh ENVIRONMENT 68Environment variables used by 69.Nm : 70.Bl -tag -width ".Ev PWD" 71.It Ev PWD 72Logical current working directory. 73.El 74.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 75.Ex -std 76.Sh STANDARDS 77The 78.Nm 79utility conforms to 80.St -p1003.1-2001 . 81.Sh SEE ALSO 82.Xr builtin 1 , 83.Xr cd 1 , 84.Xr csh 1 , 85.Xr sh 1 , 86.Xr getcwd 3 87.Sh BUGS 88In 89.Xr csh 1 90the command 91.Ic dirs 92is always faster because it is built into that shell. 93However, it can give a different answer in the rare case 94that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 95the shell descended into it. 96.Pp 97The 98.Fl L 99option does not work unless the 100.Ev PWD 101environment variable is exported by the shell. 102