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From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
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Subject: Re: determining the real directory when using automounts
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Date: 23 Feb 89 10:22:32 GMT
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ekrell@ulysses.att.com writes:
>In ksh, pwd is a builtin which returns the "logical" name of the current
>working directory, so if you "cd /foo/bar", pwd always returns "/foo/bar",
>even if you're in a different place as a consequence of following symbolic
>links or other such wierdness.

when I used csh, I used to have a "cwd", which just did a "echo $cwd".
That way I could get both the logical and physical current directory.
When I changed to ksh, I wanted to retain this functionality, so I put the
following in the .kshrc:

alias cwd='print - ~+'
unalias pwd

Now "pwd" and "cwd" work like they did for csh.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com