2006-10-09, 07:44 AM
I have seen people type that pwd is Print Working Directory but in both the
RHCE handbook and Novell's CLE handbook they say it stands for Present Working Directory.
2006-10-09, 07:44 AM
2006-10-09, 10:32 AM
i'll go for print working directory
heh :)
2006-10-09, 01:58 PM
Print working directory sounds good enough for me (and it's good enough for Wikipedia).
2006-10-09, 05:49 PM
Let me assure you that the command pwd is print working directory.
However the $PWD is present working directory .. thus its BOTH!
;)
2006-10-10, 10:00 AM
Ahh ok :)
2006-10-10, 03:01 PM
Quote:PWD(1) User Commands PWD(1)
NAME
pwd - print name of current/working directory
SYNOPSIS
pwd [OPTION]
DESCRIPTION
Print the full filename of the current working directory.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of pwd, which usually super-
sedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu-
mentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for pwd is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and pwd programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
mand
info pwd
should give you access to the complete manual.
pwd 5.94 February 2006 PWD(1)
lines 1-47/47 (END)
Print then.... Though when i first encountered it as a windows user, i thought it meant "password"....
2006-10-22, 12:55 PM
I had a RHCE practice test once ask me what is the number chmod for rw-rwx-w-
it never had the real answer which is 672