HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

pwd(1) pwd(1)

NAME

pwd - working directory name

SYNOPSIS

pwd

DESCRIPTION

pwd prints the path name of the working (current) directory.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LC_MESSAGES determines the language in which messages are displayed.

If LC_MESSAGES is not speciﬁed in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of

LANG is

used as a default for each unspeciﬁed or empty variable. If

LANG is not speciﬁed or is set to the empty

string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of

LANG.

If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,

pwd behaves as if all internationalization

variables are set to "C". See environ(5).

International Code Set Support

Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

DIAGNOSTICS

Cannot open ..

Read error in ..

Possible ﬁle system trouble; contact system administrator.

pwd: cannot access parent directories

Current directory has been removed (usually by a different process). Use cd command to move to

a valid directory (see cd(1)).

EXAMPLES

This command lists the path of the current working directory. If your home directory were

/mnt/staff

and the command cd camp/nevada were executed from the home directory, typing pwd would pro-

duce the following:

/mnt/staff/camp/nevada

AUTHOR

pwd was developed by AT&T and HP.