On Aug 19, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Reading the info page on pwd says that the command responds to --help and > --version options. When executed on a Debian system in a bash shell, the > builtin command refuses to accept either option. It also suggests the Why should it? The bash implementation need not support all parameters that the standalone version does - you can see this in 'test' as well, for example. There are doubtless others.