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pwdx for mac. Usage: pwx pid
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pwdx_for_mac.bash
function pwdx {
lsof -a -p $1 -d cwd -n | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'
}
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jbyler commented May 10, 2018

A variant that uses lsof's machine-readable format and works properly when the directory name has spaces in it:

function pwdx {
  lsof -a -d cwd -p $1 -n -Fn | awk '/^n/ {print substr($0,2)}'
}

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varenc commented May 24, 2021

thanks!

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