pwd (print working directory) is a shell command that reports the working directory path to standard output.
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- pwd
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- The pwd command
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- AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- Various open-source and commercial developers
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- C
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- Multics, Unix, Unix-like, V, Plan 9, Inferno, SpartaDOS X, PANOS, Windows CE, KolibriOS
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- Cross-platform
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- coreutils: GPLv3+Plan 9: MIT License
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- 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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