pwd (print working directory) is a shell command that reports the working directory path to standard output.
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It is catalogued under topics including File system directories, IBM i Qshell commands and Inferno (operating system) commands.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Software.name
- pwd
- Software.screenshot
- Pwdkommando.png
- Software.caption
- The pwd command
- Software.author
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Software.developer
- Various open-source and commercial developers
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Multics, Unix, Unix-like, V, Plan 9, Inferno, SpartaDOS X, PANOS, Windows CE, KolibriOS
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Command
- Software.license
- coreutils: GPLv3+Plan 9: MIT License
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- Part of
- GNU Core Utilities
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- Pwdkommando.png
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- stackoverflow.com/tags/pwd
- described at URL
- pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pwd.html
- has command line option
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pwd (print working directory) is a shell command that reports the working directory path to standard output.
Although often associated with Unix, its predecessor Multics had a pwd command (which was a short name of the print_wdir command) from which the Unix command originated. The command is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX.1 and the Single Unix Specification. It appeared in Version 5 Unix. The version bundled in GNU Core Utilities was written by Jim Meyering.
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