'\" '\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California. '\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. '\" '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" '\" RCS: @(#) $Id: pwd.n,v 1.1.1.1 2007/07/10 15:04:23 duncan Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH pwd n "" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" .BS '\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below! .SH NAME pwd \- Return the absolute path of the current working directory .SH SYNOPSIS \fBpwd\fR .BE .SH DESCRIPTION .PP Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory. .SH EXAMPLE Sometimes it is useful to change to a known directory when running some external command using \fBexec\fR, 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: .CS set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar] set savedDir [\fBpwd\fR] cd /tmp exec tar -xf $tarFile cd $savedDir .CE .SH "SEE ALSO" file(n), cd(n), glob(n), filename(n) .SH KEYWORDS working directory