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fiddlerwoaroof
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Common pronunciations of Linux directories, comman...
I think of pwd as “present working directory”, but I have no idea where I got this from.
And, it’s always a shebang line :)
kps
on Jan 10, 2021
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‘pwd’ comes from Multics, where it abbreviates ‘print_wdir’.
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And, it’s always a shebang line :)