Answer by fred.johnsen for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file

I have placed the following script on my system & I call it as a bash alias for when I want to quickly grab the full path to a file in the current dir:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/find "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -name "$1"

I am not sure why, but, on OS X when called by a script "$PWD" expands to the absolute path. When the find command is called on the command line, it doesn't. But it does what I want... enjoy.