Subject: Re: bug#50691: pwd: options with "--" (multiple dashes) return bad option

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:07:00 -0700

On 9/19/21 6:22 PM, william wrote:
> Do you know why command is necessary for it to recognize the option?

Without 'command', you're using the builtin shell command rather than 
coreutils pwd.

Closing the bug report, as this isn't a coreutils bug.