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 details 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) 2025 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 9.8 September 2025 PWD(1)