It's already been said elsewhere in the thread, but Ken Thompson worked on MULTICS before he worked on UNIX. And in Plan 9, also by Thompson et al, there's pwd

It's already been said elsewhere in the thread, but Ken Thompson worked on MULTICS before he worked on UNIX. And in Plan 9, also by Thompson et al, there's pwd and pbd, where pbd is described as "prints the base name of the working (current) directory."[0] Three OS:es by the same guy(s) all have pwd, as abbreviated from "print" in the first one. So, yeah, it's "print". [0] https://9p.io/magic/man2html/1/pwd https://9p.io/magic/man2html/1/pwd