Re: permissions not honoured by /bin/pwd aka getcwd

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:53:11PM -0000, Anton Ivanov wrote:
> Try the following:
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/crap/crap1 ; ln -s /tmp/crap /tmp/crap2 ; cd /tmp/crap2/crap1 ;
> pwd
>
> on linux it returns /tmp/crap2/crap1
> on solaris it returns /tmp/crap/crap1
I think you're fooled by bash on Linux. pwd is built-in
and uses $PWD. cd commands usually update $PWD in bash.

Everything is configurable of course but try /bin/pwd instead.

-- 
Frank
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