pwdx

Print current working directory of a process

$ pwdx 1234

$ pwdx 1234 5678

pwdx [option...] pid...

pwdx reports the current working directory of a process. It reads this information from /proc/[pid]/cwd and displays the directory path for each specified process ID.

-V, --version

Output version information and exit

Output help screen and exit

The process must be accessible to the user running pwdx. For processes owned by other users, root privileges may be required to access the working directory information.

pwdx was created by Nicholas Miell in 2004 and is part of the procps-ng package. It resembles a SunOS command of the same name.

ps(1), pgrep(1), lsof(8)