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TIL that MacOS `pwd` has `-P` and `-L` options.

     -L      Display the logical current working directory.
     -P      Display the physical current working directory (all symbolic links resolved).
     If no options are specified, the -L option is assumed.
In your example, using `-P` will show `Cased`.


In Bash and many modern POSIX shells, `pwd` is a builtin, not to mention an environment variable ${PWD}, but the POSIX system should also provide an external command, such as `/bin/pwd` that would operate on the filesystem, rather than semantically tracking your shell activity.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/stonking/man1/pwd.1.htm...


> TIL that MacOS `pwd` has `-P` and `-L` options.

Interestingly, it wasn't designed to deal with case, but to select whether to resolve symbolic links:

    $ cd /tmp
    $ mkdir a
    $ ln -s a b
    $ cd b
    $ pwd && pwd -P
    /tmp/b
    /tmp/a




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