Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:08:50 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: Boris Stoev <darko@uni-svishtov.bg>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directory path Message-ID: <20000321150850.A18708@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <00032017042101.05398@chip.homenet>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 05:03:39PM -0800 References: <20000320163853.B81662@hades.hell.gr> <00032017042101.05398@chip.homenet>
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 05:03:39PM -0800, Chip wrote: > Doesn't the comand pwd show the currant path? > It does for me. It does for me too. But using shell's builtin way of showing the current working directory is usually preferred. For one thing, if you use `pwd`, then the shell has to fork and exec a subshell, which will execute the pwd command, every time that it needs to display `pwd`. There are other, more fanciful ways to run a billion processes and see the PID count wrap back to small numbers again, IMHO ;) - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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