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pwdf - a mix of ls and pwd

7^th of April 2008

I often need to know the path to a file so that I can put that in an email for example. The only way I know is to copy and paste the output of pwd followed by a slash / followed by the name of the file. This is too much work so I wrote a quick bash script to combine this into one. Now I can do this:

 $ cd bin
 $ pwdf todo.sh 
 /home/peterbe/bin/todo.sh

I call it pwdf since it's pwd + file. Here's the code for the curious:

 #!/bin/bash
 echo -n `pwd`
 echo -n '/'
 echo $1

Is there no easier way built in into Linux already?

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