Let me take this opportunity to describe some pwd-related behavior that I thought was unexpected. Maybe we can hash out the whole "pwd" question. My not-so-informed opinion is that the behavior you see is what I would have expected since the command would have executed in you current directory. I put together a script to illustrate the unexpected behavior I see: $cat testscr #! /bin/sh echo \$PWD=$PWD echo cd .. cd ..; echo pwd produces: `pwd` echo \$PWD = $PWD The output of the script is as follows: $ tstscr $PWD=/home/rramos cd .. pwd produces: /home $PWD = /home/rramos The pwd command seems to produce the result I would have expected (the directory changes according to the script) but the PWD variable stays fixed at the directory where I ran the script from. I thought the PWD variable should have followed along. Rich Peter Feldbaumer wrote: > Hi! > > I'm new to this mailing-list, so please excuse if I ask questions that > aren't that new to you. > I tried to search the archives concerning pwd-problems, and found that there > have already been some discussions concerning the paths pwd (or /bin/pwd) is > returning. > > I'm having the problem, that pwd always returns the path where you typed in > your last command. > This breaks a few makefiles if they are located in subdirectories, since > they use "$(shell pwd)" to get their "TOPDIR". > And since pwd doesn't return the path the makefile is in, but rather the > path you typed "make -C subdir" in, they don't get their "TOPDIR" right. > > First I thought that this was a problem only concerning "make", but some > tests prooved that this seems to be a general problem with "pwd". > > If you have a short shell-script > > #!/bin/sh > pwd > > saved as /tmp/print_pwd, and then go to your root dir and type > > tmp/print_pwd > > the output of print_pwd will be > > / > > and not > > /tmp > > as I would expect. > > Please correct me, but I don't think that this is the expected behaviour of > "pwd". > Right now I'm using the snaptshot of Aug.7th 2001 on Win98, but this "bug" > (feature?) was already present in the snapshots before. > > If I'm wrong about this, please could you point out ANY way that I can get > pwd to print the "current" directory, since I tried already numerous > versions (cd tmp && pwd ....) and they all deliver the same result! > > Best regards, > Peter Feldbaumer > -- > FeldTech.com - Software Engineering & System Solutions > Goestingerstraße 72, 8051 Graz, Austria > Tel.: +43/316/584530 - Fax.: +43/316/584930 > http://www.feldtech.com - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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