symbolic link question

[Price, Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Bell [mailto:bobbell at zk3.dec.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:45 PM
> To: Price, Erik
> Cc: gnhlug-discuss at gnhlug.org
> Subject: Re: symbolic link question
> 
> 
>     Yes, this is your shell keeping track of how you got to where you
> are (your 'logical path').  This is usually also reflected in the PWD
> environment variable.

Aha.  I didn't realize that there was a shell builtin "pwd".

This is the first time that using "which" has tripped me up:

[erikprice:/home/erikprice]$ which pwd
/bin/pwd
[erikprice:/home/erikprice]$ type pwd
pwd is a shell builtin




Erik