1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, We all know that pwd (or echo $PWD) gives us the present working dir as output.... but my doubt is that I'ld like to know how to get the present working folder - I mean - name of the current folder alone.. using pwd command I get the full folder name (right from root path)... I need to know... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Can anyone explain this in detail ... echo ${PWD#${PWD%/*/*}/} Thanks in Advance (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi people... i recently installed AIX 5.3 on a server... but now when i login with root it only shows '# ' without the location where i am... for example: if im in /usr/local it continues to show only '# ' and i want to see the path like 'root@server:/usr/local#' someone can help me? ... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i've been searching the way to connect to pwd.db file located in /etc/ directory.. since i'm not the root and only one of the users of the server, i need to connect to the database so that i can make a login page for all users of the server.. the file is readable by all users and the permission... (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Can you tell me if there is a command such as pwd which does not give me the absolute NFS pathname i.e. it starts with .autofs? At the moment on the unix when I use the 'pwd' command it always gives me the nfs pathname rather thanthe local pathname of which is what i want, is there an... (4 Replies)

6. AIX

currently, my samba login works just fine. i want my clients to use aix5.3 account to login to samba so they don't have to change samba pwd and aix pwd. i googled, and vi /usr/lib/smb.conf per some of knowledge base, but i could not get to work. aix5.3 and samba 3.0.24.0 thanks in advace..... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear users, One more question, In unix when i use pwd the following I get: pwd /Users/username/src/directory name Is there a way to get the out put like this in which the if there is a space in the directory eg directory name it should show as directory\ name:... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, can anyone expalin the real importance of PWD as a variable. However pwd command and $PWD is going to give the same result, then why do we have 2 different things. Please give some example which illustrates the difference between both. Thanks (9 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, I am trying to use 'pwd' command in following way. current_directory == /dirA/dirB/test/dirC if ; then do this fi I am not sure how to pass this in command way. Please help! thanking you, emily (10 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi all,when I cd to an environment variable "cd $MYDIR, if I type pwd, I don't the path to the environment variable dir I cd to. Appreciate the help, regards..Abbya (5 Replies)