Re: `pwd` - what does this mean?

For all of these linux commands (a few thousand) you can use: man xxx So, to answer your question for yourself, use: man man man grep The | bit is used to "pipe" the output of the command on the left into the command on the right for further processing. -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Mebberson <scott@redbluedesign.com> Newsgroups: php.general To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:23 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] pwd - what does this mean? > Thanks for your reply but what does this (man -k "" | grep "(1)") do? > > Thanks > > > "Don Read" <dread@texas.net> wrote in message > news:XFMail.20010815021557.dread@texas.net... > > > > On 15-Aug-2001 Scott Mebberson wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > I actually know what it means. Well, I think it means the current > directory? > > > > It executes the Unix command pwd. > > pwd - print working (current) directory. > > > > > Anyway... what exactly is it and where can I find some more information > > > about it? I couldn't find much on php.net > > > > man pwd > > > > > - also, is there any other > > > ones(whatever it is) like this? > > > > man -k "" | grep "(1)" > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Don Read dread@texas.net > > -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to > > steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. > >