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40 .Nd return working directory name
46 writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to
49 The following options are available:
50 .Bl -tag -width indent
54 environment variable is an absolute pathname that contains
55 neither "/./" nor "/../" and references the current directory, then
57 is assumed to be the name of the current directory.
59 Print the physical path to the current working directory, with symbolic
60 links in the path resolved.
69 is usually provided as a shell builtin (which may have a different
74 utility exits 0 on success, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurs.
84 utility is expected to be conforming to
86 except that the default is
100 is always faster (although it can give a different answer in the rare case
101 that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after
102 the shell descended into it).
106 relies on the file system having unique inode numbers.
107 If this is not true (e.g., on FAT file systems) then
110 may fail to detect that