hppwd(1)

✨ hppwd(1) β€” General Commands Manual ✨

okay bestie, listen up πŸ’– this is the manual page for hppwd, and it's genuinely one of the most low-effort-iconic little tools out there. no cap.


🌸 NAME 🌸

hppwd β€” print the current working directory on an HFS+ volume πŸ¦‹


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hppwd

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no arguments, no drama. it just works. πŸ’…


πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

so what does this little main character actually do? hppwd prints the absolute pathname to the current directory on the HFS+ volume that you already mounted earlier (like, previously mounted, so go do hpmount first if you haven't, bestie πŸ™ˆ).

and here's the part that lowkey trips people up: in the path it prints, the individual volume and directory names are separated with slashes "/" instead of the Macintosh-style colons ":". so it's giving very much Unix energy, not classic Mac energy. the way that it just swaps the separator on you?? iconic but also watch out πŸ‘‘


πŸŽ€ SEE ALSO πŸŽ€

run these next, they're the whole friend group fr fr:


πŸ’œ AUTHOR πŸ’œ

this manual page was written by Jens Schmalzing <jensen@debian.org> for Debian GNU/Linux, using the manual page by Klaus Halfmann <halfmann@libra.de> that comes with the source code, plus documentation from the Tech Info Library. legends only, we stan πŸ’…βœ¨


no notes, no caveats, no exit statuses to warn you about here β€” this page is just the chillest little corner of the HFS+ toolset. πŸ“

and that's a wrap on the hppwd(1) page from the General Commands Manual, bestie β€” go print a path and slay πŸŒˆπŸ‘‘πŸ’–