Save current directory in variable using Bash

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What I m trying to do is find the current working directory and save it into a variable  so that I can run export PATH  PATH currentdir somethingelse  I m not entirely sure if they have a variable that contains cwd by default   How do I save the current directory in variable using Bash

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This saves the absolute path of the current working directory to the variable cwd   cwd   pwd    In your case you can just do   export PATH  PATH   pwd  somethingelse

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I have the following in my  bash profile   function mark       export  1  pwd       so anytime I want to remember a directory  I can just type  e g  mark there    Then when I want to go back to that location  I just type cd  there

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On a BASH shell  you can very simply run  export PATH  PATH  pwd  somethingelse  No need to save the current working directory into a variable

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Your assignment has an extra     export PATH  PATH   PWD   foo bar

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Similar to solution of mark with some checking of variables  Also I prefer not to use  variable but rather the same string I saved it under save your folder directory using save dir sdir myproject and go back to that folder using goto dir gdir myproject in addition checkout the workings of native pushd and popd they will save the current folder and this is handy for going back and forth  In this case you can also use popd after gdir myproject and go back again   Save the current folder using sdir yourhandle to a variable you can later access the same folder fast using gdir yourhandle  function sdir            -z  quot  1 quot      amp  amp  export   d   1  quot  pwd  quot     function gdir            -z  quot  1 quot      amp  amp  cd  quot    1  quot      another handy trick is to combine the two pushd popd and sdir and gdir wher you replace the cd in the goto dir function in pushd  This enables you to also fly back to your previous folder when making the jump to the saved folder    Save the current folder using sdir yourhandle to a variable you can later access the same folder fast using gdir yourhandle  function sdir            -z  quot  1 quot      amp  amp  export   d   1  quot  pwd  quot     function gdir            -z  quot  1 quot      amp  amp  pushd  quot    1  quot

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You can use shell in-build variable PWD  like this   export PATH  PATH  PWD somethingelse

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One more variant   export PATH  PATH   pwd   foo bar

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for a relative answer  use    test with     myDir     ls  myDir   cd     ls  myDir   The first ls will show you everything in the current directory  the second will show you everything in the root directory

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current working directory variable ie full path  home dev other  dir  PWD   print the full path  echo  dir

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