NAME

getcwd - get pathname of current working directory


SYNOPSIS

require Cwd; $dir = Cwd:: getcwd() ;

use Cwd; $dir = getcwd(); use Cwd 'chdir'; chdir "/tmp"; print $ENV{'PWD'};


DESCRIPTION

The getcwd() function re-implements the getcwd(3) (or getwd(3)) functions in Perl. If you ask to override your chdir() built-in function, then your PWD environment variable will be kept up to date. (See Overriding builtin functions .)

The fastgetcwd() function looks the same as getcwd() , but runs faster. It's also more dangerous because you might conceivably chdir() out of a directory that you can't chdir() back into.