We are migrating our App from HP to Sun and I'm experiencing some "strange" behavior in terms of what is returned from pwd (or $PWD)
We have been running under Korn Shell

$ cd /SYMBOLIC_LNK/subdir/subdir2/symbolic_lnk
$ pwd
displays: /SYMBOLIC_LNK/subdir/subdir2/symbolic_lnk
$ ksh
$ pwd
displays the absolute path to the directory - with no symbolic links

I have scripts that test the dir name and am expecting the dir to contain the symbolic link, not the absolute path - so these are failing.

This worked correctly on HP, but is not working right on Sun
cd

Is there a way to tell Sun to return the path name with the symbolics intact?

Thx,
John

If I'm not wrong, you can specify
pwd -L
The availabel options are -P / -L

try bash shell. I think bash shell by default shows the logical path

pwd is both a shell builtin (for ksh) and it is also a shell utility.

The behavior of pwd for the same version of ksh on either box should be the same. Because it is a shell builtin. Are you in the same version of ksh on both boxes, like ksh93 or whatever?

If you have POSIX compliant pwd on your Solaris box you can also use pwd -L or pwd -P as an alias to override pwd.

seems like that ksh in the middle is causing you the issue. Everything works pretty much like expected until you reset the ksh kernel, which picks up the absolute path at that point. Try changing your directory AFTER you do the ksh command.

I am running the below on a solaris box

prdora1: :ll -d /bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 28 2006 /bin -> ./usr/bin
prdora1: :cd bin
/bin
prdora1:bin wd
/bin
prdora1:bin wd -P
/usr/bin
prdora1:bin :echo $PWD
/bin
prdora1:bin :ksh
prdora1:bin wd
/usr/bin
prdora1:bin wd -P
/usr/bin
prdora1:bin :echo $PWD
/usr/bin
prdora1:bin wd -L
/usr/bin