pwd means show the present working directory.
pwd is a UNIX term meaning show the present working directory for the current user.
Questions tagged [pwd]
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Formatting pwd/ls for use with scp
I have two terminal windows with bash. One is local on the client computer, another one has an SSH-session on the server. On the server, I am in a directory and seeing a file I would like to copy to my client using scp from the client.
On the server…
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Windows symlink does not show full path?
Current pwd:
C:
I created a sample symlink say:
mklink /j C:\a C:\b\c
Thereafter after i navigate using the symlink:
cd a
If I execute the 'pwd' command, I see the path as C:\a Is there a way so that I can see the actual path…
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ZSH Colorize the PWD output in aliases
NOTE: Yes, This is on Mac OS 11.6.2 Big Sur.
Right now I have zsh aliases in the .zshrc file to make terminal navigation easier. I thought I'd try to colorize the PWD output, but what happens is that the output is the previous directory. I've added…
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How to force linux to print full path along with timestamp while using find
I need to store the full path of a specific file found through find (and successive piped operations on find results). I'm using this:
find "$PWD" . -iname p_*.raw -printf "%Tc %p\n" | sort | cut -f 7 -d " "
However, as it is it produces…
83ingD33p
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Linux symlinks to directories
I created a symlink in my home folder to another directory:
$ pwd
/home/user1
$ ln -s /usr/local/dir/ shortcut
$ ls -l
................................... shortcut -> /usr/local/dir/
$ cd shortcut
$ pwd
/home/user1/shortcut
I do end up in that dir…
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Changing my shell bash script default $PWD to it's (the script's) current location
Hey I'm running my shell script that interacts with folders and files, but my $PWD that it keeps pointing to /home/MyUserName directory and this messes with what it is supposed to do. I am running Linux 4.4.8-300.fc23.x86_64…
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Reverse a default flag
As a context. I have a folder which I have symlinked into my $HOME directory.
~> ls -s /var/www/to_link "$HOME/linked"
I cd into "$HOME/linked"
So, by default, pwd shows the current directory including symlinks. In this case, it would be…
cwallenpoole
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SSHFS: get real pwd on original server?
I have connected one of my production server folders with my "ssh account" server via sshfs.
I often need to find out pwd (or realpath) of the file on the original (production) server, but the pwd returns the path to file on the connected ("ssh…
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Make an alias work in "that" directory? Even if created in .zshrc
This is zsh but perhaps applies to other shells.
Say you are in directory /foo and you
% find $PWD -name '.*'
it works fine, results are from /foo.
Now (in /foo) type this
% alias crazy="find $PWD -name '.*'"
Now go % crazy and you'll see the same…
Fattie
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WSL zsh - Trim working directory if it contains a certain folder
I'm using WSL to run ohmyzsh on my win 10 machine. I have a repository folder in which I keep my git repositories, and it is my most common working directory. I want to be able to conditionally hide the prompt working directory that comes before…
J Lewis
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Why does get-psDrive not return the currentLocation for some drives?
I have two drives on the computer I am currently working: c: and d:. When I switch between these cd c:, cd d:, PowerShell remembers the location of the last path I was in the respective drive. I believe this path should be accessible by the value of…
René Nyffenegger
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Create a lot of Symlinks with pwd and regular expressions and space in path
I'm trying to create a script in order to keep the files with the same extension in a folder separated from the rest. In particular, I want a script that, executed in a folder, create soft links of all .tex files and put them in a subfolder…
Exodd
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Bash PS1 and single vs. double quotes
I'm a linux and Bash newbie and would like to ask help understanding the role of single and double quotes when assigning the PS1 env var.
I wanted to set the terminal to always show the current directory.
At first I tried this:
export…
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