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PWD stands for... - xDamox - 2006-10-09
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.
PWD stands for... - anyweb - 2006-10-09
i'll go for print working directory
heh :)
PWD stands for... - hybrid - 2006-10-09
Print working directory sounds good enough for me (and it's good enough for Wikipedia).
PWD stands for... - znx - 2006-10-09
Let me assure you that the command pwd is print working directory.
However the $PWD is present working directory .. thus its BOTH!
;)
PWD stands for... - xDamox - 2006-10-10
Ahh ok :)
PWD stands for... - djsmiley2k - 2006-10-10
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)
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Print then.... Though when i first encountered it as a windows user, i thought it meant "password"....
PWD stands for... - hijinks - 2006-10-22
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