The terminal is approachable and can be fun—practice shortcuts to make it your go-to over a GUI. Learn history, !!, Ctrl+R, tab completion, pwd, and cursor shortcuts to edit and reuse commands fast.

If I go to a less interesting mount (/var is mounted on a local device), pwd behaves normally. It also works normally under sh, bash, ksh. tcsh fails in the same way. What is going on here? edit: Well ...