Determining Your Current Directory with
pwd
Once you start looking through directories, it is easy to get lost
or forget the name of your current directory. By default,
bash shows just your current directory, not
the entire path.
To determine the exact location of your current directory within the
file system, go to a shell prompt and type the command
pwd.
You should see something like:
This tells you that you are in the user sam's
directory, which is in the /home directory.
The command pwd stands for print working
directory. When you typed pwd, you asked your Linux
system to display your current location. Your system responded by
printing the name of the current directory in the terminal window, also
known as the standard output.
You will find that using pwd is very helpful as
you learn to navigate your new Linux system.
