NAME

pwd — print working directory

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

pwd prints the full path of the current working directory.

OPTIONS

-L

(default) Use the PWD environment variable if it contains an absolute pathname of the current directory, and doesn't contains dot or dot-dot components.

-P

Writes current directory, without any components referring to a symbolic link.

If both -L and -P are passed, the last one applies.

EXIT STATUS

The pwd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

getcwd(3)

STANDARDS

pwd should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>