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📛 19.1 'pwd': Print working directory

📄 File: coreutils.info, Node: pwd invocation, Next: stty invocation, Up: Working context

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Print current directory	pwd	Prints the working directory
Show logical path (with symlinks)	pwd -L	Use PWD environment variable if valid
Show physical path (no symlinks)	pwd -P	Resolve all symbolic links

📝 SYNOPSIS

pwd [OPTION]...

📖 DESCRIPTION

🏠 pwd prints the name of the current directory. The program accepts the following options. Also see Common options.

⚙️ OPTIONS

• -L, --logical: 🔗 If the contents of the environment variable PWD provide an absolute name of the current directory with no . or .. components, but possibly with symbolic links, then output those contents. Otherwise, fall back to default -P handling.
• -P, --physical: 📍 Print a fully resolved name for the current directory. That is, all components of the printed name will be actual directory names—none will be symbolic links.

⚖️ If -L and -P are both given, the last one takes precedence. If neither option is given, then this implementation uses -P as the default unless the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set.

⚠️ Due to shell aliases and built-in pwd functions, using an unadorned pwd interactively or in a script may get you different functionality than that described here. Invoke it via env (i.e., env pwd ...) to avoid interference from the shell.

🚪 Exit Codes

✅ An exit status of 0 indicates success, and a non-zero value indicates failure.

📛 19.1 'pwd': Print working directory 🚀 Quick Reference 📝 SYNOPSIS 📖 DESCRIPTION ⚙️ OPTIONS 🚪 Exit Codes