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pwd(1) General Commands Manual pwd(1) NAME pwd - Displays the pathname of the current working directory SYNOPSIS pwd STANDARDS Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry stan- dards as follows: pwd: XPG4, XPG4-UNIX Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about in- dustry standards and associated tags. OPTIONS None OPERANDS None DESCRIPTION The pwd command writes to standard output the full pathname of your current working directory. All directories are separated by a / (slash). The first / represents the root directory and the last direc- tory named is your current working directory. EXIT STATUS The following exit values are returned: Successful completion. An er- ror occurred. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES The following environment variables affect the execution of pwd: Pro- vides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used. If any of the internationalization vari- ables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined. If set to a non-empty string value, over- rides the values of all the other internationalization variables. De- termines the locale for the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error. Determines the location of message cata- logues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES. SEE ALSO Commands: cd(1), csh(1), ksh(1), Bourne shell sh(1b), POSIX shell sh(1p) Functions: stat(2), getcwd(3) Standards: standards(5) pwd(1)