Windows equivalent to UNIX pwd

Question

How do I find the local path on windows in a command prompt?

Answer 1

This prints it in the console:

echo %cd%

or paste this command in CMD, then you'll have pwd:

(echo @echo off
echo echo ^%cd^%) > C:\WINDOWS\pwd.bat

Answer 2

It is cd for "current directory".

Answer 3

Open notepad as administrator and write:

@echo %cd%

Save it in c:\windows\system32\ with the name "pwd.cmd" (be careful not to save pwd.cmd.txt)

Then you have the pwd command.

Answer 4

cd ,

it will give the current directory

D:\Folder\subFolder>cd ,
D:\Folder\subFolder

Answer 5

cd without any parameters is equivalent to pwd on Unix/Linux.

From the console output of typing cd /?:

Displays the name of or changes the current directory.

[...]

Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory.

Answer 6

hmm - pwd works for me on Vista...

Final EDIT: it works for me on Vista because WinAvr installed pwd.exe and added \Program Files\WinAvr\Utils\bin to my path.

Answer 7

C:\Documents and Settings\Scripter>echo %cd%
C:\Documents and Settings\Scripter

C:\Documents and Settings\Scripter>

for Unix use pwd command

Current working directory

Answer 8

In PowerShell pwd is an alias to Get-Location so you can simply run pwd in it like in bash

It can also be called from cmd like this powershell -Command pwd although cd or echo %cd% in cmd would work just fine

Answer 9

Use the below command

dir | find "Directory"

Answer 10

You can simply put "." the dot sign. I've had a cmd application that was requiring the path and I was already in the needed directory and I used the dot symbol.

Hope it helps.