On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, r3b3l wrote: >Hi! I would like to know if this i encountered is really a bug or i'm i >just doing something wrong? i'm kind off a newbie with linux, so sory >if i ask some silly question or if i am just doing it all wrong. I am >running mandrake linux 10.1 and the pwd --version command doesen't >work. It just prints the following: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] r3b3l]$ pwd --version >bash: pwd: --: invalid option >pwd: usage: pwd [-PL]
You're running the shell's built-in version of pwd, which apparently doesn't support the --help or --version arguments. This works for me: $ /bin/pwd --version pwd (GNU coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by Jim Meyering. built-in pwd implementations can be confusing as they will in some circumstances return a different directory to /bin/pwd, if you have cd'd through a symlink. e.g. $ mkdir a && ln -s a b $ cd b $ pwd /tmp/b $ /bin/pwd /tmp/a Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
