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Old 05-28-2016
$pwd

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
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Old 05-28-2016
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Originally Posted by abbya
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.
But what else, instead?

Your request amounts to something like when i add 1 to 1 i don't want the result to be 2.

When you set an environment variable "MYDIR" to some value, say, "/some/where" and you do a cd $MYDIR you do - effectively - a cd /some/where.

If you now issue the command pwd, it will tell you the current directory you are in. In fact, this - to tell you the current directory you are in - is the very purpose of the command pwd. And because you just changed to /some/where before this current directory will invariably be /some/where.

Just in case you meant the (enviroment variable) $PWD (not "$pwd" - UNIX is case sensitive): this is a variable automatically maintained by many shells (ksh and bash among them) to always point to the same (current) directory, the command pwd is displaying. For this, the same goes as i already said about the command. If you go to a certain location you are there - and because "location" is where you are, regardless of where this is, it will be your location and your location will be where you are.

And, by the way, i would appreciate if you could come up with more telling thread titles. Maybe i am extra slow, but i couldn't glean any meaning from "$pwd".

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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Old 05-28-2016
This sounds simple to explain......

If you 'cd' to a variable (to define the directory) and after that command has executed a 'pwd' doesn't tell you that you're in that directory, then the 'cd' command didn't work.

There's something wrong with your variable definition and/or the 'cd' command construct.
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Old 05-29-2016
If any of the some/where argument of the cd command goes to a symbolic link, then the real path from pwd command will differ.
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Old 05-29-2016
@MadeInGermany........yes, good point. Also, like Bakunin, I wonder why this thread is entitled $pwd (what's the $ got to do with it?)
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Old 05-29-2016
Thanks to all feedback

Thank you all for the feedback, apologize for the title name, I am new to Unix only practice it very seldom.
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