pwd

Displays the absolute path of the current working directory.

Supplementary instructions

The pwd (English full spelling: print working directory) command is used to display the user's current working directory (displayed as an absolute path).

Built-in commands

Summary

pwd [-LP]

Options

-L (default) Print the value of the environment variable "$PWD", which may be a symbolic link.
-P Prints the physical location of the current working directory.

return value

The return status is success unless an illegal option is given or the current directory cannot be read.

Notice

• This command is a built-in bash command. For related help information, please see the help command.

External commands

Summary

pwd [OPTION]...

The main purpose

• Display the current working directory.

Options

-L, --logical Print the value of the environment variable "$PWD", which may be a symbolic link.
-P, --physical (default) Print the physical location of the current working directory.
--help Display help information and exit.
--version Display version information and exit.

return value

The return status is success unless an illegal option is given or the current directory cannot be read.

Notice

• This command is a command in the GNU coreutils package. For related help information, please view man pwd or info coreutils 'pwd invocation'.

• To enable or disable built-in commands, please see the enable command. For issues with the priority of the same name, please see the relevant discussion in the examples section of the builtin command.

• When the built-in is not disabled and the pwd function is not defined in the current environment, use /usr/bin/pwd to point to the pwd of coreutils and use pwd to point to the bash built-in pwd .

example

View current path

[root@localhost var]#pwd
/var

Display the file path that the soft link file ultimately points to

[root@localhost ~]# cd /var/ # Enter the /var directory. There is a mail soft link file in this directory.
[root@localhost var]# ls -al
total 164
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 17 2015 mail -> spool/mail

[root@localhost var]# cd mail/ # Enter the mail directory, where mail is the connection file.
[root@localhost mail]# pwd # By default, the connection file is used and the full path of the connection file is directly displayed.
/var/mail

Using the -P parameter, what is displayed is not the logical path, but the file that the connection (soft link) file ultimately points to.

[root@localhost mail]# pwd -P
/var/spool/mail