current pwd in prompt

John Carl Zeigler jcz at sas.UUCP
Tue Feb 23 13:41:21 AEST 1988


Actually, the differnces between 'pwd' (aka print $pwd) and
'/bin/pwd' include:

(cwd = '/net/chopin/foo/bar/blech' )

	$ /bin/pwd
	/net/chopin/foo/bar/blech
	$ pwd
	/foo/bar/blech

on HP-UX systems with RFA, that is.   Very annoying,
took me too long to find this in a shell script.  sigh

--jcz

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John Carl Zeigler
SAS Institute Inc.
Cary, NC  27511           (919) 467-8000        ...!mcnc!rti!sas!jcz



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