Windows PowerShell equivalent to Unix/Linux `pwd`?

Question

In follow-up to the cmd.exe question, what is the PowerShell equivalent to echo %cd%, or Linux/Unix pwd?

Solution 1

PowerShell has many of the same commands as Linux. pwd is the command equivalent.

When you type pwd in Powershell, it is an alias to Get-Location.

Solution 2

In addition to Get-Location and its Aliases, you can also use the automatic variable $pwd.

The $pwd variable is nice because you have direct access to the PathInfo members. E.g.

$pwd.Path.PadLeft(80)
$pwd.Drive

And if you ever want to know what members there are you can just pipe the command\alias to Get-Member :

PS C:\Users\your-name-here\Desktop> pwd|Get-Member


   TypeName: System.Management.Automation.PathInfo

Name         MemberType Definition
----         ---------- ----------
Equals       Method     bool Equals(System.Object obj)
GetHashCode  Method     int GetHashCode()
GetType      Method     type GetType()
ToString     Method     string ToString()
Drive        Property   System.Management.Automation.PSDriveInfo Drive {get;}
Path         Property   System.String Path {get;}
Provider     Property   System.Management.Automation.ProviderInfo Provider {get;}
ProviderPath Property   System.String ProviderPath {get;}

Solution 3

Get-Location cmdlet should do the trick

As Thiago mentioned, you can use these aliases: gl or pwd

Solution 4

If you only need the Path as Text without the usual header:
(gl).Path /* is a short form for Get-Location with the object Path,
or (pwd).Path

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Comments

[David Yates]

"that was easy" .. boy do I feel sheepish :)

[David Yates]

very cool! I need to find a good tutorial introduction to PowerShell

[sean christe]

Hover over the Powershell tag in your question. Click the FAQ link. Look at the second item in the list.

[Doktor J]

Hi Peter and welcome to SU! when indicating stuff that should be typed, use `backticks` (usually the top left corner of QWERTY keyboards below Esc) to put it in code formatting (or for long blocks, indent every line by four spaces) to improve legibility :)

[Christian Kaiser]

Not exactly, Use Get-Location | Foreach-Object { $_.Path } to get only the path as in Linux pwd