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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 69f0efa6 | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by |
| 5 | .\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. | |
| 6 | .\" | |
| b5dc1377 | 7 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% |
| 69f0efa6 | 8 | .\" |
| ae122740 | 9 | .\" @(#)pwd.1 6.5 (Berkeley) %G% |
| b5dc1377 | 10 | .\" |
| ee9b0a0a | 11 | .Vx |
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12 | .Dd |
| 13 | .Dt PWD 1 | |
| 14 | .Os BSD 4 | |
| 15 | .Sh NAME | |
| 16 | .Nm pwd | |
| 17 | .Nd return working directory name | |
| 18 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
| 19 | .Nm pwd | |
| 20 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| 21 | .Nm Pwd | |
| 22 | writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to | |
| 23 | the standard output. | |
| 24 | .Pp | |
| 25 | The pwd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. | |
| 26 | .Sh STANDARDS | |
| 27 | The pwd function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible | |
| 28 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 29 | .Xr cd 1 , | |
| 30 | .Xr csh 1 , | |
| 31 | .Xr getwd 3 | |
| 32 | .Sh BUGS | |
| 69f0efa6 | 33 | In |
| b5dc1377 | 34 | .Xr csh 1 |
| 69f0efa6 | 35 | the command |
| b5dc1377 | 36 | .Ic dirs |
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37 | is always faster (although it can give a different answer in the rare case |
| 38 | that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after | |
| 39 | the shell descended into it). |