What's your mnemonic for pwd?- OMG it means print working directory. My mind instantly goes to password every time. I had to reach puddle wuv dud levels of autism before thinking otherwise. I shame my
My kryptonite is du which reports disk usage, and df which reports disk file size, or no, wait, du is file size and df is disk usage.
Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don't need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn't).
I'm always like "du shows disk usage of files, and df shows how much of disk is free".
I just try them both every time
isn't it just 'present working directory'?
It's 'print current directory' in the source code:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/42c4578b49afaf3dc8de884262f34e4a19066860/src/pwd.c#L1
You "print" to standard output, which is the terminal.
Unless you're old-school and using a teletype as your terminal and actually printing it.
It absolutely can be either and is not so clear cut as responders are claiming.
Weather its 'print working directory' or 'present working directory' depends on the source you ask, and ultimately they have the same meaning so it really doesn't matter which you use.
Whenever pwd is used as a variable, 'present' is more logical than 'print'.
https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2020/11/08/the-myriad-meanings-of-pwd-in-unix-systems/
This is what it is at least in my head
In my head too. We can share though.
That's what I've always known it as
I mean it’s basically the same thing but the command itself means “print”; it’s a damn old command and it probably predates using screens for terminals (used to be printers); which is why all the parts of Linux (ugh, and GNU of course) that came from Unix ideas came from that age.
You literally sat in front of a typewriter that would respond to you. Wild.
Welp, I always thought path-to-working-directory like to get the full path
puh-wuh-duh
pwned
pizza with dick is how i reamber it
I thought it meant p-word. As in "wet ass p-word"
I always called it Present Working Directory but apparently it's Print
Same, mind blown
I usually abbreviate these "in German" in my head. Esp. handy if there's a freaking double-U in it, which is just one syllable in German. Exception: /etc = Etsy
I’m still not over the fact that /etc isn’t for et cetera
EDIT: turns out that it is, and that there’s a lot of dumbasses on the internet “teaching”
You might be right.
I am German and never had a problem with pwd... The "double-you" certainly breaks some easy phonetic connections you would otherwise just make...
I pronounce it pwood.
Pwud here
I use muscle memory.
I use it both for password and pwd interchangeably
Sir this is Wendy's
On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to "passwd".
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??
"umount" is worse
But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
... No, wait again... aah...
First time I have to use it, the spelling really confused me. Wrote unmount and didn’t understand why it didn’t work.
They did boatloads of horrific things to save bytes. They radix encoded strings, created the y2k and 2038 problems, normalized redirecting output to /dev/null, passed raw text blocks through a fifo file buffer rather than properly tagged data, ditched proper exception handling and a bunch more listed in the Unix Hater’s Handbook
https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!
I SAID, pass the wood
It’s the passw daemon
Do you not tab-complete your commands? I mean, my terminal usage for anything beyond very short commands consists of
<first few letters of command>
<TAB>
.Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor... damn, I mean: passwd ;-)
🤷 that's why we have ls, rm, mv and hell, even w.
To confuse things even more there's a utility called pwgen and I can never remember which two letters to type before hitting autocomplete.
mv = move, thus: