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