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.Dd May 22, 2023 33.Dt PWD 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm pwd 37.Nd return working directory name 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl L | P 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm 44utility writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 45the standard output. 46.Pp 47Some shells may provide a builtin 48.Nm 49command which is similar or identical to this utility. 50Consult the 51.Xr builtin 1 52manual page. 53.Pp 54The options are as follows: 55.Bl -tag -width indent 56.It Fl L 57Display the logical current working directory. 58.It Fl P 59Display the physical current working directory (all symbolic links resolved). 60.El 61.Pp 62If no options are specified, the 63.Fl P 64option is assumed. 65.Sh ENVIRONMENT 66Environment variables used by 67.Nm : 68.Bl -tag -width ".Ev PWD" 69.It Ev PWD 70Logical current working directory. 71.El 72.Sh EXIT STATUS 73.Ex -std 74.Sh EXAMPLES 75Show current working directory with symbolic links resolved: 76.Bd -literal -offset indent 77$ /bin/pwd 78/usr/src/sys/kern 79.Ed 80.Pp 81Show the logical current directory. 82Then use 83.Xr file 1 84to inspect the 85.Pa /sys 86directory: 87.Bd -literal -offset indent 88$ /bin/pwd -L 89/sys/kern 90$ file /sys 91/sys: symbolic link to usr/src/sys 92.Ed 93.Sh SEE ALSO 94.Xr builtin 1 , 95.Xr cd 1 , 96.Xr csh 1 , 97.Xr realpath 1 , 98.Xr sh 1 , 99.Xr getcwd 3 100.Sh STANDARDS 101The 102.Nm 103utility conforms to 104.St -p1003.1-2001 . 105.Sh HISTORY 106The 107.Nm 108command appeared in 109.At v5 . 110.Sh BUGS 111In 112.Xr csh 1 113the command 114.Ic dirs 115is always faster because it is built into that shell. 116However, it can give a different answer in the rare case 117that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 118the shell descended into it. 119.Pp 120The 121.Fl L 122option does not work unless the 123.Ev PWD 124environment variable is exported by the shell. 125