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From: jcz@sas.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: current pwd in prompt
Message-ID: <353@sas.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 03:41:21 GMT
References: <11657@brl-adm.ARPA> <17877@topaz.rutgers.edu> <1079@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: jcz@sas.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc Cary, NC
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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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--jcz
John Carl Zeigler
SAS Institute Inc.
Cary, NC  27511           (919) 467-8000        ...!mcnc!rti!sas!jcz