how to know the current path
 

in the system , there are many user are logining and working in the shell , if I would like to know which path the specific user is working now ( eg. may be the user is cd to /tmp and working in it , what I hope to do is to know the user is working in /tmp ) , would advise what can I do ?

thanks

Hi,

To find all the processes with /tmp as the current working directory, this may help:

You'll have to do this as root. The results may also contain processes which aren't interactive user sessions.

Regards,

Clifford

thanks reply ,

if I would like to know the which path ( not only /tmp ) the specific user is working , what can I do ? thanks

Have a look at the lsof command and it's man page please.

"lsof -d cwd" will show you the Current Working Directory (CWD) for each process on the system, irrespective of where that directory is.

Another approach: as root, run:

/proc/processid/cwd is a symbolic link to the CWD for that process.