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pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory
pwd
Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory.
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
file, cd, glob, filename
working directory
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Copyright © 1995-1997 Roger E. Critchlow Jr.