isn’t it just ‘present working directory’?
No. “Print working directory” is the command to print (display) the “cwd” (current working directory).
I find it weird when you get “pwd” as a variable
Kinda yeah, but I think that just comes from storing the output of the PWD command.
The system call that returns that value is called getcwd().
It’s ‘print current directory’ in the source code:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/42c4578b49afaf3dc8de884262f34e4a19066860/src/pwd.c#L1
This is what it is at least in my head
In my head too. We can share though.
It absolutely can be either and is not so clear cut as responders are claiming.
Weather its ‘print working directory’ or ‘present working directory’ depends on the source you ask, and ultimately they have the same meaning so it really doesn’t matter which you use.
Whenever pwd is used as a variable, ‘present’ is more logical than ‘print’.
https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2020/11/08/the-myriad-meanings-of-pwd-in-unix-systems/
Welp, I always thought path-to-working-directory like to get the full path
My kryptonite is
duwhich reports disk usage, anddfwhich reports disk file size, or no, wait,duis file size anddfis disk usage.Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don’t need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn’t).
I’m always like “
dushows disk usage of files, anddfshows how much of disk is free”.
I always called it Present Working Directory but apparently it’s Print
Same, mind blown
I usually abbreviate these “in German” in my head. Esp. handy if there’s a freaking double-U in it, which is just one syllable in German. Exception: /etc = Etsy
I pronounce it pwood.
Pwud here
pizza with dick is how i reamber it
I use it both for password and
pwdinterchangeably
