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12-18-2009

kandrewo

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Thanks a lot.

'pwd -P' works.

It is strange that there are no description of '-P' argument in pwd man page.
I tried on SunOS.
Maybe this is because shell has built-in pwd.

Think, this topic should be closed.

Thanks, kandrewo.

Last edited by kandrewo; 12-21-2009 at 09:13 AM..

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