coreutils: pwd invocation
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1 19.1 ‘pwd’: Print working directory
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1 ‘pwd’ prints the name of the current directory. Synopsis:
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1 pwd [OPTION]...
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11 The program accepts the following options. Also see ⇒Common
options.
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1 ‘-L’
1 ‘--logical’
1 If the contents of the environment variable ‘PWD’ provide an
1 absolute name of the current directory with no ‘.’ or ‘..’
1 components, but possibly with symbolic links, then output those
1 contents. Otherwise, fall back to default ‘-P’ handling.
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1 ‘-P’
1 ‘--physical’
1 Print a fully resolved name for the current directory. That is,
1 all components of the printed name will be actual directory
1 names—none will be symbolic links.
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1 If ‘-L’ and ‘-P’ are both given, the last one takes precedence. If
1 neither option is given, then this implementation uses ‘-P’ as the
1 default unless the ‘POSIXLY_CORRECT’ environment variable is set.
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1 Due to shell aliases and built-in ‘pwd’ functions, using an unadorned
1 ‘pwd’ interactively or in a script may get you different functionality
1 than that described here. Invoke it via ‘env’ (i.e., ‘env pwd ...’) to
1 avoid interference from the shell.
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1 An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
1 indicates failure.
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