docs/133424: Man page for pwd incorrectly lists default option
Steven Kreuzer
skreuzer at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 6 14:10:02 UTC 2009
>Number: 133424
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Man page for pwd incorrectly lists default option
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 06 14:10:01 UTC 2009
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Steven Kreuzer
>Release: 7.1-PRERELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
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>Description:
I think I might have found an error in the man page for pwd. It says that -P is the default if no option is specified, but it appears that -L is actually
the default.
Example:
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir aaa
$ ln -s aaa bbb
$ ls -ld bbb
lrwxr-xr-x 1 steven wheel 3 Apr 3 17:20 bbb -> aaa
$ cd bbb
$ pwd
/tmp/bbb
$ pwd -L
/tmp/bbb
$ pwd -P
/tmp/aaa
If this is indeed an error, the attached patch will fix that.
Thanks
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
Index: pwd.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/pwd/pwd.1,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.26 pwd.1
--- pwd.1 16 Jan 2005 16:41:58 -0000 1.26
+++ pwd.1 6 Apr 2009 13:54:51 -0000
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
.El
.Pp
If no options are specified, the
-.Fl P
+.Fl L
option is assumed.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
Environment variables used by
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