Questions tagged [pwd]
For questions about the working directory of processes, as well as the `pwd` command
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Can't loop files using pwd if current directory has spaces in the path [duplicate]
I have the following bit of code in a bash script I've created. When I run it from a directory with no spaces in the path it works as expected, however if I run from a directory with spaces it fails. ...
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Subshell does not inherit PWD
Hi I am fairly new to Linux and I've been trying to SSH and CD in one line from Windows 10 into Ubuntu. One solution I thought to try was:
ssh -t <ip address> "cd <directory>; bash"
I've ...
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unbundling a file of here docs when file's directory is different from pwd
All,
I have a file (called, say, bundled_file.txt) of here docs stored in a directory, and the file looks like this:
cat > a.txt << 'eof'
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'eof'
cat > b.txt << 'eof'
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How to change user and keep current location?
I wonder how in one command I can switch to another user (in my case it is usually root) and still remain in the same location where I am before the change.
I usually do it this way, unfortunately ...
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sh: is there a command to interactively edit the PWD?
I'm looking for a command that invokes readline or similar, primed with the current $PWD, to let the user edit the current directory, then cd to the edited value. E.g.
> cd ~/a/b/c/d
> pwd
> ...
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Complete a command fully relative to a different directory
I have a function to run a single command in a different category. cd1 SOMEDIR MYCOMMAND ARG… is equivalent to (cd SOMEDIR && MYCOMMAND ARG…), with two advantages. It's slightly easier to type ...
asked Jun 30 '19 at 16:34
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Difficulty in undersanding pwd command
I am writing pwd in terminal, and it is showing home/<my_username>. But I cannot physically find any directory with this path. To clear my confusion, I typed ls, but it shows the folders in my ...
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Specifying path to a file within a program command line
I am using a program called Diamond and I have a script that goes like this:
cd /srv/scratch/myname/hello
diamond blastp -d /srv/scratch/myname/goodbye/inputFile1.dmnd -q inputFile2.faa -o /diamond/...
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Add file to PATH only when in specific directory [duplicate]
Is it possible to make executable appear in the global search path when I am entering to the some specific directory and get it removed once directory changed again?
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tcl cd/pwd command with regard to real/symbolic path
When I work under tcl environment, once I cd to a directory, even if the path I specify is its symbolic link, then no matter whether I run pwd -L or pwd -P, they all return the absolute path. This is ...
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When can a “cd” command fail in a shell script and what can I do to remedy it?
I have a shell script that failed to finish last week; it was a failed "cd" command and it exits if it fails.
The script is a bash shell script for configuring new Debian installs.
Here is the full ...
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How to run a command with a different working directory?
I use this shell pipeline to get a SQL dump using the terminal:
$ cd var/lib/mysql && mysqldump -uroot -p"craft" --add-drop-table craft > ~/../docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/base.sql &&...
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Use SCP from local machine to recursively copy current working directory to remote?
Trying to do something like (in pseudo-unix):
scp -r <pwd> username@remote.com:~/<dirname of toplevel>
In other words, I'm trying to copy the current directory I'm in locally (and the ...
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tmux change default working directory of a session without attaching
I'm looking for a way to do something like this without attaching to the session.
tmux attach-session -c <directory> -t <session>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Per tmux(1), there ...
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Why pwd does not accept long options like --physical?
When I display the manual for pwd command, it says that long options like --physical are supported
$ man pwd
PWD(1) User Commands PWD(1)
NAME
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Remove all lines that contain $PWD
I have a file that contains paths - looks like this:
/Users/a/Desktop
/Users/a/Documents
/Users/a/Documents/Work
What would be the easiest way to remove all lines that contain the current directory (...
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Trying to remove current directory using rmdir
I created a directory dir at Desktop and then i keyed in cd dir so as to make dir as my current directory and then i typed in the terminal rmdir /home/user_name/Desktop/dir from the dir directory ...
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Linux: How to display the output of both command who and pwd using 1 command [closed]
I tried:
who & pwd and it output the result of pwd output: /root.
May I know if I am right?
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Get container directory more easily
I have a bash script here:
$GOPATH/
src/
build.sh
and in build.sh I have:
export GOPATH="$(cd $(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE") && pwd)"
is there a shorter way to get the containing dir ...
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A directory showing up in itself [closed]
I do cd ~ and then pwd. It shows /root. Then I do ls. It again shows root. This is NOT another directory with the same name because when I do cd root, it says -bash: cd: root: Not a directory.
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content from pwd and which failed with sed to be replaced [duplicate]
I have a file which has the following content:
BWA='/software/bwa/bwa-0.7.12/bwa'
SAMTOOLS='/software/samtools/samtools-1.3.1/samtools'
The above tools are on my computer:
which bwa => /work/...
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How to change working directory of a child process by posix_spawn? [closed]
In Linux (CentOS 7.5, kernel 3.10, gcc 7.3), is it possible to change the working directory of a child process created by posix_spawn before it runs a given process image (an executable)? If yes, how? ...
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how to run shell command inside awk
i am trying to change dir when from A path to B path like below
pwd|awk '{if($1=="/") cd /tmp/}'
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
please suggest
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why piping pwd and echo does not work? [duplicate]
I'm new to unix. I typed this command in ubuntu terminal:
pwd | echo
I expected to see the output of pwd in terminal(/home/fatemeh/Documents/Code/test)
but the output was just a single empty line.
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sudo start login shell (-i) and stay at current working directory
When I login to root via
sudo -i
sudo changes the working directory of new shell to root's home directory. I can use following commands to keep working directory of parent shell:
sudo -s
sudo su
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Change path directory bash.exe
I installed bash on my Windows machine, and now when I run the shell, the pwd is:
/mnt/c/Windows/System32
How may I change this?
I open this shell everyday to work, and the directory when I'm ...
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What happens when the current directory is deleted?
In the first terminal A, I create a directory, enter the directory, and create a file:
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ touch file1.txt
$ ls
file1.txt
Then in another terminal B, I delete the directory:
$ ...
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In what cases may some programs require you to run them on a specific directory? [closed]
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/76641/674
Create a short shell script to run your wine program in this
directory, i.e. ~/bin/textaloud:
#!/bin/bash
cd "~/.wine/drive_c"
exec wine "~/.wine/...
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Concatenate pwd and basename [closed]
I want to assign the path and file name to a variable:
/path/to/myfile/file.txt
For example
MYFILE=$(pwd)$(basename)
How can i do it ?
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How to make my PS1 bash session show the whole pwd at all times?
Relevant .bashrc section:
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\] '
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How does Unix keep track of a user's working directory when navigating the file system?
Say I log into a shell on a unix system and begin tapping away commands. I initially begin in my user's home directory ~. I might from there cd down to the directory Documents.
The command to change ...
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How to get pid number and folder where it works
How I can get PID number and folder where it works?
If I run 2 same programs in different folders:
/var/www/public_html/first_folder/test.jar <i>(it runs all the time)</i>
/var/www/...
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Etymology of $PWD
What is the etymology of $PWD? Is it an acronym?
I know there is a command pwd which prints working directory, but to my mind, it would have made more sense to name the variable $CWD for Current ...
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pwd to return current path with “/” at the end
I want pwd to return /path/to/dir in the format /path/to/dir/ with the "/" at the end. Any ideas as to how I can accomplish this?
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How to find and print specific file paths with exclusions?
Goal: Output .txt file with the full directory path, including name, of all .html files except for those with "txt" or "text" in the .html file name.
I found the following line gives me the desired ....
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How/where does the shell store environment variables?
So there's $PWD, $PATH, $USERNAME and all that. I've been working on my own shell and I've just today introduced environment variables. The way I'm doing it is by creating strings called pwd, path and ...
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calling $PWD from another script
Having some trouble getting $PWD to work inside a bash script...
I have two scripts in the same directory:
~/outer.sh, ~/inner.sh. I use outer.sh to call inner.sh as follows:
(outer.sh contents ...
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How can I set zsh to use physical paths?
In bash, I can put set -P in my .bashrc, and to use absolute paths. That is, if I change to a directory through a symbolic link, and then use cd .., it takes me to that directory's canonical parent, ...
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Parameters in bash $PS1 variable
Between the various parameters that can be included in the bash PS1 variable, \w expands
the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde
(uses the value of the PROMPT_DIRTRIM ...
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iterm syncing sessions across new tabs
When I open up new tabs in iterm and change a directory, it syncs the old tabs to that new directory. I don't want this behavior. I'd like it to preserve the session that it was on. What's the problem ...
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Is there a difference between pwd and cd?
Is there a difference between pwd and cd (no arguments)? They both print the current directory's path but is there a subtle difference that I'm missing, and if so, when should I use which?
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moving subdirectories with the mv command
In the following structure, with a parent directory K and three subdirectories, D, H, and B, respectively, directly under it, my current directory is D. From there I need to move H as a subdirectory ...
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How to search string references in specified location?
I'm trying to find the occurrence of elements list(from a text file) in a directory.
Below is the bash code I'm using, but I'm unable to get the output of grep command on to console.
#!/bin/bash
...
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PS1='$(pwd)' why this works and why is this different from PS1=$(pwd)
Why when I enter this command the prompt changes to my directory?
PS1='$(pwd)'
I am using single quotes, which means no interpolation , a.k.a echo '$(pwd)' ——→ $(pwd)
Furthermore, say that we ...
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launch a script which requires to be launched from a specific path via crontab
I have a script which before being launched checks via pwd if the path upon launch is something specific (say dir/subdir/script)
current_folder=$(pwd | grep dir/subdir/script)
if [ "$current_folder" =...
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How to tell if I'm actually in a symlink location from command line?
Suppose I have a folder:
cd /home/cpm135/public_html
and make a symbolic link
ln -s /var/lib/class .
Later, I'm in that directory:
cd /home/cpm135/public_html/class
The pwd is going to tell me I'...
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Why does the pwd doesn't update after directory removal?
I tried a little experiment where I created 2 folders Dir1 and Dir2 inside my Desktop directory, such that Dir1 is parent of Dir2.
/home/username/Desktop/Dir1/Dir2
Then, I use cd to set my pwd as /...
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How can I make pwd resolve a soft link?
On one of our servers, we have a directory with the following path:
"/daten/i/scripts"
When you go to /daten/i, one can see that scripts is a soft link to "/batch".
When I type cd /daten/i/scripts ...
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Create history log per working directory in bash
I was wondering if it is possible to keep a file containing history per current working directory. So for example if I was working in /user/temp/1/ and typed a few commands, these commands would be ...
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Alias for “cd” which shows current directory each time I change directories?
In tcsh, I would like an alias to pwd after I cd to a different directory.
Previously I used the below alias for this, but it also changes the shell prompt to be [current directory]>. Due to ...
