pwd

Format:

pwd 

To display the current working directory, type:

					$ pwd 
/var/spool 

$ WHERE_AM_I=‘pwd‘ 
$ echo $WHERE_AM_I 
/var/spool

Substitution is used to grab the current working directory in a script.

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