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PWD

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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NAME

pwd - print name of current/working directory

SYNOPSIS

pwd [,OPTION/]...

DESCRIPTION

Print the full filename of the current working directory.

-L, --logical: use PWD from environment, even if it contains symlinks
-P, --physical: avoid all symlinks
--help: display this help and exit
--version: output version information and exit

If no option is specified, -P is assumed.

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of pwd, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.

AUTHOR

Written by Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report pwd translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.