pwd(1)

pwd1

Print name of current/working directory

Usage

pwd [OPTION] ...

Overview

Print the full filename of the current working directory.

-L, --logical

use PWD from environment, even if it contains symlinks

-P, --physical

resolve all symlinks

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

If no option is specified, -P is assumed.

Your shell may have its own version of pwd, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 15 times.

  1. 1.1–1.2
  2. 1.3–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0
  8. 6.0
  9. 7
  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. 13
  16. Arch

--logical since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --physical since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -L since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -P since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

Author

Written by Jim Meyering.

Reporting bugs

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From coreutils 9.12-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.