Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:25:50PM +0000, Stephane CHAZELAS wrote: >> >> da...@thinkpad ~/foo $ echo $PWD >> >> /home/darkk/foo > >> Well, if I read >> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pwd.html >> correctly, bash pwd should output /home/darkk/bar in that case >> as $PWD does *not* contain an absolute path to the current >> directory. > > An "absolute pathname" is one that begins with a / character. As > opposed to a "relative pathname" which does not, and which is resolved > relative to your current working directory. > > $PWD is always an absolute pathname.
There are two conditions: 1. absolute pathname and 2. to the current directory. The second one is violated. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
