Tell HN: Bash 'pwd' has different results from /usr/bin/pwd

  $ mkdir tmp1 ; ln -s tmp1 tmp2
  $ ( cd tmp2 ; pwd )
  /home/user/git/install/src/tmp2
  $ ( cd tmp2 ; /usr/bin/pwd )
  /home/user/git/install/src/tmp1

Apparently bash assumes the "-L" option by default, and coreutils assumes the "-P" option by default. So depending on whether you're running pwd from bash or shelling out to /usr/bin/pwd, you may get different results.

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