13.3. Determining Your Current Directory with pwd

the entire path.

To determine the exact location of the current directory at a shell prompt and type the command pwd.

You will see something such as:

/home/sam

This example shows 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 system responds to requests for information, the response is called standard output, and can be printed to the shell prompt or can be redirected to other programs or to other output devices such as printers.

You will find that using pwd is very helpful as you learn to navigate your Red Hat Linux system.