NAME¶
pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory
SYNOPSIS¶
pwd
DESCRIPTION¶
Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory.
EXAMPLE¶
Sometimes it is useful to change to a known directory when running some external
command using
exec, but it is important to keep the application usually
running in the directory that it was started in (unless the user specifies
otherwise) since that minimises user confusion. The way to do this is to save
the current directory while the external command is being run:
set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar]
set savedDir [ pwd]
cd /tmp
exec tar -xf $tarFile
cd $savedDir
SEE ALSO¶
file(3tcl), cd(3tcl), glob(3tcl), filename(3tcl)
KEYWORDS¶
working directory