pwd(1) General Commands Manual pwd(1)Name
pwd - print working directory
Syntax
pwd
Description
The command prints the pathname of the working (current) directory.
Restrictions
In the command dirs is always faster (although it can give a different answer in the rare case that the current directory or a containing
directory was moved after the shell descended into it).
See Alsocd(1), csh(1), getwd(3)pwd(1)
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pwd(1) General Commands Manual pwd(1)NAME
pwd - Displays the pathname of the current working directory
SYNOPSIS
pwd
STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
pwd: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.
OPTIONS
None
OPERANDS
None
DESCRIPTION
The pwd command writes to standard output the full pathname of your current working directory. All directories are separated by a /
(slash). The first / represents the root directory and the last directory named is your current working directory.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: Successful completion. An error occurred.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of pwd: Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are
unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used. If any of the internationalization vari-
ables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined. If set to a non-empty string value,
overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables. Determines the locale for the format and contents of diagnostic mes-
sages written to standard error. Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.
SEE ALSO
Commands: cd(1), csh(1), ksh(1), Bourne shell sh(1b), POSIX shell sh(1p)
Functions: stat(2), getcwd(3)
Standards: standards(5)pwd(1)
Hi Folks,
In a Unix (ksh) script, is there a way to determine the current working directory path of another logged-in user? Of course, I can use "pwd" to find my own path. But, how do I find it for another active user?
Thanks for any input you can provide. LY (6 Replies)
Hi, first post here be gentle. Very new to Unix. Using HP-UX 10.20
I CD into a remote directory on one machine
$ cd /net/remote hostname
yet when I do an ll in this directory none of the contents appear. It just is empty.
when I do the same command from another machine,
$ cd... (13 Replies)
hi, this echo $SHELL will give the shell name.. how to get the other list of variables (besides SHELL) values?
and also, different shells have different variable names (example SHELL) (10 Replies)
Hi E(uni)xperts,
I have a file in which I need to replace some text with the current path of the execution.
meaning..
if I am running from
/user/oldtrash/scripts and the file contains
"this is ur directory current_dir"
then I should see the file content as
"this is ur... (6 Replies)
Hello everyone - First post here,
I'm trying to connect to an anonymous ftp server and I am told by the server admin that I cannot have access to the "print working directory" command. I need to have access to this command in order for my (and my clients) preferred ftp client to connect. (the... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a conenction to remote server that I'm sending files too via FTP.
The problem I have is that when the file gets delivered it is 0 (zero) size.
I've manually connected and logged on. The only command I can successfully execute is pwd. When I do a dir or a put command it will... (7 Replies)
Here is my script
#!/bin/bash
pwd
cd /var/lib/pgsql
Both "pwd" and "cd" are not executed is there any other way i can change the current working directory to /var/lib/pgsql pls help! (9 Replies)
In sun solaris, pwdx will give the print working directory.
Suppose I have 5 databases running on different oracle versions.
If I want to know what database is running on what oracle version, I just give pwdx <process id>. It will show the oracle home details.
Could you give me the... (10 Replies)
I have entry in the my .profile like below, but still i see $PWD is not defied in my system
export PS1=$LOGNAME@`hostname`':'$PWD'>'
echo $PWD also gives me nothing, my env list also give no entry for PWD.Can someone help me setting PWD variable.
I use /bin/sh (9 Replies)
Assume that you want to set your prompt to display the current working directory followed by a percent symbol and then a space. The command pwd can be used to display this information, so explain why the following command does not have the expected result:
set prompt=" `pwd`'%' "
Its a... (7 Replies)
I decided I wanted to have the cd command print my full working directory after each cd command, so I put this cw command in .bashrc as a function.
cw ()
{
cd "${1}"
pwd
}While this works I would like pwd to print escapes when a space in a directory name exists. This would... (7 Replies)
Hi,
can anyone expalin the real importance of PWD as a variable.
However pwd command and $PWD is going to give the same result, then why do we have 2 different things.
Please give some example which illustrates the difference between both.
Thanks (9 Replies)
I need to utilize pam_pwdfile in order to authenticate virtual users in vsftpd. I know I can utilize htpasswd2 -m to create a password file however it is vital since I am administrating several machines in our organization that the password generated be in clear text. Does anyone on here know if... (10 Replies)
Dear all,
I am trying to use 'pwd' command in following way.
current_directory == /dirA/dirB/test/dirC
if ; then
do this
fi
I am not sure how to pass this in command way. Please help!
thanking you,
emily (10 Replies)