PAWD(1)

📦 version 6.2.0, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 PAWD(1) 💖

okay so bestie, gather round, because we're talking about pawd from the General Commands Manual — yes that's the manual section, she's a section 1 girlie, a real user command, a main character. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pawd — print automounter working directory 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pawd [ path ... ]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. optional paths, zero drama. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so pawd prints out your current working directory, but adjusted — and no, not adjusted like "girl you need to calm down," adjusted like reflecting proper paths that you can actually reuse to go through the automounter for the shortest possible path. shortest path, bestie. we love efficiency. we love a shortcut that actually works. 🔥

and here's the part where it gets real: the path that comes back does not include any of Amd's local mount points. nope. not a single one. and why, you ask? because using them is unsafe — Amd may unmount managed file systems from the mount points, and so if you go around including them in paths, you might not always find the files within. like. you'd be out here typing a path that used to work and it just. doesn't. 😭 not the file being unreachable, not the path lying to you, we simply do not do that here.

⚠️ fr fr: Amd's local mount points in your paths = unsafe. do not pass go. do not collect your file. do not include them.

now the behavior, and this is the part everyone asks about:

  • zero arguments → pawd prints the automounter adjusted current working directory. just you, your cwd, adjusted, glowing. ✨
  • any number of arguments → it prints the adjusted path of each one of the arguments. one, two, ten, whatever, she'll do all of them. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • pwd(1) — the original girl, the blueprint, the one who doesn't know about automounters 💜
  • amd(8)
  • amq(8)
  • the ``am-utils'' info(1) entry — go read her, she's thorough 🧚
  • Linux NFS and Automounter Administration by Erez Zadok, ISBN 0-7821-2739-8, (Sybex, 2001). yes an actual book, yes with an ISBN, yes you can look it up 📚
  • http://www.am-utils.org — the site, the source, the lore 🌐
  • Amd - The 4.4 BSD Automounter 🍓

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA. 🎓
  • Other authors and contributors to am-utils are listed in the AUTHORS file distributed with am-utils. 🫶

okay and finally, the receipts: this page is dated 6 Jan 1998, so yeah, she's an icon, she's a legend, she's been doing this since before most of us could read, and she's still out here printing adjusted paths like it's nothing. not me being obsessed with a 1998 manpage. 💀💖

slay, stay safe, and for the love of everything — don't put Amd's local mount points in your paths. mwah. 💅✨

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