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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)pwd.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 36.\" $FreeBSD$ 37.\" 38.Dd February 4, 2002 39.Dt PWD 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm pwd 43.Nd return working directory name 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm 46.Op Fl L | P 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Nm Pwd 49writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to 50the standard output. 51.Pp 52Some shells may provide a builtin 53.Nm 54command which is similar or identical to this utility. 55Consult the 56.Xr builtin 1 57manual page. 58.Pp 59The options are as follows: 60.Bl -tag -width indent 61.It Fl L 62Display the logical current working directory. 63.It Fl P 64Display the physical current working directory (all symbolic links resolved). 65.El 66.Pp 67If no options are specified, the 68.Fl P 69option is assumed. 70.Sh ENVIRONMENT 71Environment variables used by 72.Nm : 73.Bl -tag -width PWD 74.It Ev PWD 75Logical current working directory. 76.El 77.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 78.Ex -std 79.Sh STANDARDS 80The 81.Nm 82utility conforms to 83.St -p1003.1-2001 . 84.Sh SEE ALSO 85.Xr builtin 1 , 86.Xr cd 1 , 87.Xr csh 1 , 88.Xr sh 1 , 89.Xr getcwd 3 90.Sh BUGS 91In 92.Xr csh 1 93the command 94.Ic dirs 95is always faster because it is built into that shell. 96However, it can give a different answer in the rare case 97that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after 98the shell descended into it. 99.Pp 100The 101.Fl L 102option does not work unless the 103.Ev PWD 104environment variable is exported by the shell. 105