pwd(n)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, meet pwd(n) — a Tcl Built-In Command that returns the absolute path of the current working directory. From the Tcl Built-In Commands manual, page pwd(n). That's the whole job. iconic ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pwd

That's the whole synopsis, bestie. No drama, just pwd 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

When you run pwd, it returns the absolute path name of the current working directory. Like, the full path name, no cap. Slay. 🫶

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🌸 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, like this:

set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar]
set savedDir [pwd]
cd /tmp
exec tar -xf $tarFile
cd $savedDir

Save the dir, dip out, do the thing, come back. Main character energy fr fr 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• file(n)
• cd(n)
• glob(n)
• filename(n)

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🧚 KEYWORDS 🧚

• working directory

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Source/version: Tcl, page pwd(n); date: not listed in the original footer, bestie — mwah 💖✨ periodt 💅