Dec 19, 2014 · The pwd binary, on the other hand, gets the current directory through the getcwd(3) ...

The pwd binary, on the other hand, gets the current directory through the getcwd(3) ...

Otherwise, if a value for PWD is passed to the shell in the environment when it is executed, the value is an absolute pathname of the current working directory, and the value does not contain any components that are dot or dot-dot, then it is unspecified whether the shell sets PWD to the value from the environment or sets PWD to the pathname ...

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With dollar expansion in the prompt turned on, PS1='$(pwd)' sets PS1 to the 6-character value $(pwd) and thus causes $(pwd) to be substituted, and therefore the pwd command to be executed, each time the shell displays a new prompt. On …

Possible Duplicate: pwd without symlinks Imagine I have a directory /home/me/dir and a symbolic link to it called /home/me/dirlink now if I enter dirlink and use pwd, it of course prints t...

Oct 10, 2013 · Bonus: if you need to cause a process to change its current directory, you can do it with a debugger. This is useful for example to move a long-running program that doesn't care about its current directory out of a directory that you want to remove.

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