Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:20:20 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: pwd-problem Message-ID: <20010808112020.F4406@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <003101c11ff4$d4441f00$0200000a@phoenix> <3B714E1E.42DABFD5@coreenetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3B714E1E.42DABFD5@coreenetworks.com>; from rramos@coreenetworks.com on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:35:10AM -0400 On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:35:10AM -0400, Richard Ramos wrote: >Let me take this opportunity to describe some pwd-related behavior that >I thought was unexpected. Maybe we can hash out the whole "pwd" question. > >My not-so-informed opinion is that the behavior you see is what I would >have expected since the command would have executed in you current >directory. pwd prints the current working directory. If you cd to /, pwd will print /. I really don't understand how anyone could consider this to be a bug. >I put together a script to illustrate the unexpected behavior I see: > >$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. The PWD variable is not used by ash. If you want PWD to change use bash. cgf -- 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/