From: Shaun.Racine@intier.com
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 09:56:09 EDT
Thanks to following for very quick replies, all of which work;
Johan Brusche
Geoff Paul
David Smith
I will go with 'pwd -P'. I did do a man on pwd before posting, this
wasn't listed :(
Original question;
Under ksh, when I cd /usr/spool/cron and pwd I see "/usr/spool/cron",
although I am really in /var/cluster/members/{memb}/spool/cron/.
Is there a command to see the real path of a directory, without stepping
through each one in turn with ls -ld?
Background: I backed up /, /usr & /var to a new on-line disk partitions
called /exroot, /exusr & /exvar before trashing /, /usr & /var and
reinstalling Unix. When I wanted the original cron jobs I instinctively
went to /exusr/spool/cron, but found it empty because I was really in
the new, clean /var partition. I should have gone to /exvar/spool/cron,
didn't occur to me until following week (duh!).
Replies:
Johan Brusche
Try "pwd -P"
Geoff Paul
Change to csh and it will tell you your true path.
David Smith
/usr/bin/pwd
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