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pwd (1g)

Name

pwd - print name of current/working directory

Synopsis

pwd [OPTION]...

Description




User Commands                                              PWD(1)



NAME
     pwd - print name of current/working directory

SYNOPSIS
     pwd [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
     Print the full filename of the current working directory.

     -L, --logical
          use PWD from environment, even if it contains symlinks

     -P, --physical
          avoid all symlinks

     --help
          display this help and exit

     --version
          output version information and exit

     NOTE: your shell may have its own version of pwd, which usu-
     ally supersedes the version described here.  Please refer to
     your  shell's documentation for details about the options it
     supports.

AUTHOR
     Written by Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report pwd bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
     GNU coreutils home page:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
     utils/>
     General  help  using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
     elp/>
     Report  pwd  translation  bugs  to   <http://translationpro-
     ject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright  (C)  2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License
     GPLv3+:     GNU     GPL     version     3      or      later
     <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
     This  is  free  software:  you are free to change and redis-
     tribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the  extent  permitted
     by law.


ATTRIBUTES
     See   attributes(5)   for   descriptions  of  the  following
     attributes:





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User Commands                                              PWD(1)



     +---------------+--------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Availability   | file/gnu-coreutils |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
     +---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
     getcwd(3C)

     The full documentation for pwd is maintained  as  a  Texinfo
     manual.  If the info and pwd programs are properly installed
     at your site, the command

          info coreutils 'pwd invocation'

     should give you access to the complete manual.



NOTES
     This  software  was   built   from   source   available   at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.    The  original
     community       source       was       downloaded       from
     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz

     Further  information about this software can be found on the
     open source community  website  at  http://www.gnu.org/soft-
     ware/coreutils/.


























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