Linux manual pages Section 1: General Commands  

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

[Note] 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

Report pwd bugs to bug−coreutils@gnu.org

GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>

General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

Report pwd translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

SEE ALSO

getcwd(3)

The full documentation for pwd is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and pwd programs are properly installed at your site, the command

  • info coreutils 'pwd invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 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.