nobody ever asks howami
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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pwd my friend. Print working directory.
What location do you want?
For the current directory, there’s pwd
For the server, there’s hostname, as has been pointed out already.
Or are you wondering how to get any of that in the prompt, rather than just $>? You'll need to set the PS1 variable for that.
Thank you for the tip about the PS1 variable. I couldn't remember what that was called either
hostname or hostname -f if you want the fqdn
Thank you! I know what I'm going to alias it to!
whatami should be an alias to uname -a
I'm on Redhat (recent version) if it matters