Working directory

In computing, the working directory of a process is a directory of a hierarchical file system, if any,^{[nb 1]} dynamically associated with the process. It is sometimes called the current working directory (CWD), e.g. the BSD getcwd^[1] function, or just current directory.^[2] When a process refers to a file using a path that does not begin with a / (forward slash), the path is interpreted as relative to the process's working directory. So for example a process with working directory /rabbit-shoes that asks to create the file foo.txt will end up creating the file /rabbit-shoes/foo.txt.

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