Look closer at my post. The differences I saw were with these commands:
I'd be interested to know if Ubuntu behaves the same way as unix. My test was with HP-UX but I have seen the effect on other unixes.
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)
Home directory mounted on one local system as /home/username, same directory mounted on a remote system as /home/engr/username.
How to use command to use remote host pwd. For example
rsh <remote host> ls -l ~pwd (2 Replies)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Discussion started by: abbya
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pwd
PWD(1) User Commands PWD(1)NAME
pwd - print name of current/working directory
SYNOPSIS
pwd [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
Print the full filename of the current working directory.
-L, --logical
use PWD from environment, even if it contains symlinks
-P, --physical
avoid all symlinks
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of pwd, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu-
mentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report pwd bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report pwd translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO getcwd(3)
The full documentation for pwd is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and pwd programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'pwd invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 PWD(1)