checking path capitalization of pwd Is there a quick way to check in terminal that the terminal command pwd returns the correct capitalization of the path?

Note that if you do cd ~/desktop then pwd would tell you that your path is /Users/foo/desktop rather than the correct /Users/foo/Desktop.

EDIT: Motivation: build systems need a way to check this early on, otherwise it's really hard to debug. An unsuspecting user uses a wrong capitalisation, starts a build, gets errors that are very puzzling.

EDIT2: Silently accepting incorrectly capitalised input for cd is the standard behaviour of bash on an HFS+ file system, and thus for the vast majority of OSX users. Then, pwd is a bash builtin, and it simply takes the content of the path stack of the shell (typos included).
Use /bin/pwd

cd ~/desktop
/bin/pwd -P