PWD (path)

Current working directory

Description

PWD is an environmental variable containing the current working directory.

It is updated via cd however you can overwrite its value manually via export.

See Also

• Change Directory (cd): Change (working) directory
• Define Environmental Variable (export): Define an environmental variable and set it's value
• PWDHIST (json): History of each change to the sessions working directory
• path: Structured object for working with file and directory paths

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This document was generated from gen/variables/PWD_doc.yaml.