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Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 20:20:29 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield can someone explain the difference in "current directory" and PWD? -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 20:21:41 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield oh, PWD is an environment variable. now I want to know how the hell that is useful. -
Luka (visual aspect) (luka@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 21:38:47 UTC Luka (visual aspect) @musicman you can use it in shell scripts without relying/running a command?
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Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 23:00:39 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield I guess if you aren't using GNU bash, but is a shell built-in more expensive than an environment variable?
Apparently the answer is security...at least in python, which is where this question originates. I don't really need to question it any further. It's an official python suggestion.
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