How to see real pwd instead of symbolic under ksh

Shaun.Racine_at_intier.com
Date: 04/28/03

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    Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:34:48 +0100
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

    Hi all,

    TRU64 v5.1A pk4 non-clustered

    Under ksh, when I cd /usr/spool/cron and pwd I see "/usr/spool/cron",
    although I am really in /var/cluster/members/{memb}/spool/cron/.

    Is there a command to see the real path of a directory, without stepping
    through each one in turn with ls -ld?

    Background: I backed up /, /usr & /var to a new on-line disk partitions
    called /exroot, /exusr & /exvar before trashing /, /usr & /var and
    reinstalling Unix. When I wanted the original cron jobs I instinctively
    went to /exusr/spool/cron, but found it empty because I was really in the
    new, clean /var partition. I should have gone to /exvar/spool/cron, didn't
    occur to me until following week (duh!).

    TIA
    Shaun Racine

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