Your program's working directory

Each time you start your program with run, it inherits its working directory from the current working directory of . The working directory is initially whatever it inherited from its parent process (typically the shell), but you can specify a new working directory in with the cd command.

The working directory also serves as a default for the commands that specify files for to operate on. See section Commands to specify files.

cd directory

Set the working directory to directory.

pwd

Print the working directory.

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