pwd - took me forever to figure out this had nothing to do with a password. According to this article, it means "Print Working Directory": https://unix.stackex

pwd - took me forever to figure out this had nothing to do with a password. According to this article, it means "Print Working Directory": https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399026/etymology-of-pwd https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399026/etymology-of... "Historically, program output was printed on paper rather than on screens. So the print part is due to the output technology of the time that the command was developed."