Windows equivalent to UNIX pwd

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

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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

It is cd for "current directory".

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.

You can just type

cd

it will return you the current path.

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

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.

Use the below command

dir | find "Directory"
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