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pwd(n)                                      Tcl Built-In Commands                                     pwd(n)



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NAME
       pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory

SYNOPSIS
       pwd
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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 minimizes 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(n), cd(n), glob(n), filename(n)


KEYWORDS
       working directory



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