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- =head1 NAME
-
- getcwd - get pathname of current working directory
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- require Cwd;
- $dir = Cwd::getcwd()'
-
- use Cwd;
- $dir = getcwd()'
-
- use Cwd 'chdir';
- chdir "/tmp";
- print $ENV{'PWD'};
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- The getcwd() function re-implements the getcwd(3) (or getwd(3)) functions
- in Perl. If you ask to override your chdir() built-in function, then your
- PWD environment variable will be kept up to date. (See
- L<perlsub/Overriding builtin functions>.)
-
- The fastgetcwd() function looks the same as getcwd(), but runs faster.
- It's also more dangerous because you might conceivably chdir() out of a
- directory that you can't chdir() back into.
-