pwd(1T) Tcl Built-In Commands pwd(1T)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory
SYNOPSIS
pwd
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory.
EXAMPLE
Sometimes it is useful to change to a known directory when running some external command using exec, but it is important to keep the appli-
cation usually running in the directory that it was started in (unless the user specifies otherwise) since that minimises user confusion.
The way to do this is to save the current directory while the external command is being run:
set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar]
set savedDir [pwd]
cd /tmp
exec tar -xf $tarFile
cd $savedDir
SEE ALSO file(1T), cd(1T), glob(1T), filename(1T)KEYWORDS
working directory
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWTcl |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Tclpwd(1T)
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Tcl_GetCwd(3TCL) Tcl Library Procedures Tcl_GetCwd(3TCL)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
Tcl_GetCwd, Tcl_Chdir - manipulate the current working directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h>
char *
Tcl_GetCwd(interp, bufferPtr)
int
Tcl_Chdir(path)
ARGUMENTS
Tcl_Interp *interp (in) Interpreter in which to report an error, if any.
Tcl_DString *bufferPtr (in/out) This dynamic string is used to store the current working directory. At the time of the call it should
be uninitialized or free. The caller must eventually call Tcl_DStringFree to free up anything stored
here.
char *path (in) File path in UTF-8 format.
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
These procedures may be used to manipulate the current working directory for the application. They provide C-level access to the same
functionality as the Tcl pwd command.
Tcl_GetCwd returns a pointer to a string specifying the current directory, or NULL if the current directory could not be determined. If
NULL is returned, an error message is left in the interp's result. Storage for the result string is allocated in bufferPtr; the caller
must call Tcl_DStringFree() when the result is no longer needed. The format of the path is UTF-8.
Tcl_Chdir changes the applications current working directory to the value specified in path. The format of the passed in string must be
UTF-8. The function returns -1 on error or 0 on success.
KEYWORDS
pwd
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWTcl |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Tcl 8.1 Tcl_GetCwd(3TCL)
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