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.\" 3. 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.\" 34.Dd May 22, 2023 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 EXIT STATUS 75.Ex -std 76.Sh EXAMPLES 77Show current working directory with symbolic links resolved: 78.Bd -literal -offset indent 79$ /bin/pwd 80/usr/src/sys/kern 81.Ed 82.Pp 83Show the logical current directory. 84Then use 85.Xr file 1 86to inspect the 87.Pa /sys 88directory: 89.Bd -literal -offset indent 90$ /bin/pwd -L 91/sys/kern 92$ file /sys 93/sys: symbolic link to usr/src/sys 94.Ed 95.Sh SEE ALSO 96.Xr builtin 1 , 97.Xr cd 1 , 98.Xr csh 1 , 99.Xr realpath 1 , 100.Xr sh 1 , 101.Xr getcwd 3 102.Sh STANDARDS 103The 104.Nm 105utility conforms to 106.St -p1003.1-2001 . 107.Sh HISTORY 108The 109.Nm 110command appeared in 111.At v5 . 112.Sh BUGS 113In 114.Xr csh 1 115the command 116.Ic dirs 117is always faster because it is built into that shell. 118However, it can give a different answer in the rare case 119that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 120the shell descended into it. 121.Pp 122The 123.Fl L 124option does not work unless the 125.Ev PWD 126environment variable is exported by the shell. 127