PWD(1) General Commands Manual PWD(1)

NAME

pwd — return working directory name

SYNOPSIS

pwd

DESCRIPTION

The pwd utility will write an absolute pathname of the current working directory to standard output.

OPTIONS

None.

OPERANDS

None.

STDIN

Not used.

INPUT FILES

None.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

The following environment variables affect the execution of pwd :

LANG: Provide a default value for the internationalisation variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the implementation-dependent default locale will be used. If any of the internationalisation variables contains an invalid setting, the utility will behave as if none of the variables had been defined.
LC_ALL: If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalisation variables.
LC_MESSAGES: Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
NLSPATH: Determine the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS

Default.

STDOUT

The pwd utility output will be an absolute pathname of the current working directory:

"%s\n", <directory pathname>

STDERR

Used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES

None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

None.

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0: Successful completion.
>0: An error occurred.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS

If an error is detected, output will not be written to standard output, a diagnostic message will be written to standard error, and the exit status will not be zero.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

EXAMPLES

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.