pwd

{{Short description|Shell command that reports the working directory}}

{{Other uses|PWD (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox software

| name = pwd

| logo =

| screenshot = Pwdkommando.png

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| caption = The pwd command

| author = AT&T Bell Laboratories

| developer = Various open-source and commercial developers

| released = {{Start date and age|1974|6}}

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| programming language = C

| operating system = Multics, Unix, Unix-like, V, Plan 9, Inferno, SpartaDOS X, PANOS, Windows CE, KolibriOS

| platform = Cross-platform

| genre = Command

| license = coreutils: GPLv3+
Plan 9: MIT License

| website =

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pwd (print working directory){{Cite web|url=https://www.unix.com/man-page/minix/1/pwd/|title=pwd(1) [minix man page]|website=www.unix.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mankier.com/1/pwd|title=pwd - print name of current/working directory - man page|website=www.mankier.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pwd-invocation|title=GNU Coreutils|website=www.gnu.org}} is a shell command that reports the working directory path to standard output.{{cite book|url=http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/v7vol1.pdf|title=Unix Time-Sharing System: Unix Programmer's Manual|edition=7th|volume=1|date=January 1979|publisher=Bell labs|page=142|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050520231659/http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/v7vol1.pdf|archive-date=2005-05-20}}{{Cite web|title=pwd(1) [plan9 man page]|url=https://www.unix.com/man-page/plan9/1/pwd/|website=www.unix.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pwd.html|title=pwd|website=pubs.opengroup.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.unix.com/man-page/osf1/1/pwd/|title=pwd(1) [osf1 man page]|website=www.unix.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pwd.1.html|title=Apple OS X MAN page}}{{Cite web|url=https://man.openbsd.org/pwd.1|title=pwd(1) - OpenBSD manual pages|website=man.openbsd.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.unix.com/man-page/opensolaris/1/pwd/|title=pwd(1) [opensolaris man page]|website=www.unix.com}}

Although often associated with Unix, its predecessor Multics had a pwd command (which was a short name of the print_wdir command{{cite web |title=working_dir, wd, print_wdir, pwd (Multics help segment) |url=http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics/doc/info_segments/working_dir.info |website=MIT |access-date=7 March 2020}}) from which the Unix command originated.{{cite web |last1=Van Vleck |first1=Tom |title=Unix and Multics |url=https://multicians.org/unix.html |website=Multicians.org |access-date=7 March 2020}} 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.{{man|cu|wc|SUS}} It appeared in Version 5 Unix.{{man|1|pwd|FreeBSD}} The version bundled in GNU Core Utilities was written by Jim Meyering.{{man|1|pwd|Linux}}

The command is available in other shells and operating systems including SpartaDOS X,{{Cite web|url=http://sdx.atari8.info/sdx_files/4.48/SDX448_User_Guide.pdf|title=SpartaDOS X 4.48 User Guide}} PANOS,{{Cite web|url=http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Panos.html#CL|title=Chris's Acorns: Panos|website=chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk}} and KolibriOS.{{Cite web|url=http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Shell|title=Shell - KolibriOS wiki|website=wiki.kolibrios.org}} PowerShell provides {{code|pwd}} as an alias for the cmdlet Get-Location. An equivalent command in COMMAND.COM and Command Prompt is the cd command with no arguments. On Windows CE 5.0, cmd.exe includes a pwd command.{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/ms907227(v=msdn.10)|title=Command Processor Commands (Windows CE 5.0)|website=docs.microsoft.com}} The OpenVMS equivalent is show default.

The numerical computing environments MATLAB and GNU Octave include a pwd

function with similar functionality.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/pwd.html|title=Identify current folder - MATLAB pwd|website=www.mathworks.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://octave.sourceforge.io/octave/function/pwd.html|title=Function Reference: pwd|website=octave.sourceforge.io}}

The command is implemented as a shell builtin in many Unix shells including sh, ash, bash, ksh, and zsh. It can be implemented with the POSIX getcwd() or getwd() functions.