08-29-2003
Actually I kinda think that I have seen a -H option to pwd, but I'm not completely sure and I can't find any evidence of it. Still, my feeling is that -H meant hard and there was a -S which meant soft or symbolic, with -S being the default. If this is right, the -H would now be -P or a Posix compliant system. For pwd to be able to distingish between a physical and a logical path it must be a shell built-in. So the -H would be specific to some shell that I came across sometime after symbolic links were invented and before Posix standardized the pwd options.
And there is another possibility... circa 1980, pwd was not built-in to the shell. The shell had to invoke a separate program to run pwd. That program ignored its arguments. The SunOs /usr/bin/pwd seems to still behave like that. If this is very old script, the -H could be an error that seemed to work when the script ran with an older shell.
In any event, the change being made to the script is possibly triggering the execution of that pwd line. And prior to the change, the script didn't happen to reach that path.
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DESCRIPTION
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EXAMPLES below).
OPTIONS
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EXAMPLES
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