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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: "'Peter Feldbaumer'" <feldbaumer AT feldtech DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: pwd-problem
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:57:27 -0400 
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> From: Peter Feldbaumer [mailto:feldbaumer AT feldtech DOT com]
> Subject: pwd-problem
> I'm having the problem, that pwd always returns the path 
> where you typed in your last command.
>... 
> 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".
 It is the expected behaviour.
> Right now I'm using the snaptshot of Aug.7th 2001 on Win98, 
> but this "bug"
> (feature?) was already present in the snapshots before.
 This is not a Cygwin issue.  All unix-based systems behave this way.
> 
> 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!
 You seem to have a strange idea of "current" directory.
 Would  "dirname" do what you want?

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