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. -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 de- tails about the options it supports. AUTHOR Written by Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: Report any translation bugs to COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO getcwd(3) Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) pwd invocation' GNU coreutils 9.11 April 2026 PWD(1)