Sooner or later (probably sooner), when you start looking through directories, you're bound to ask, ``Where the heck am I?'' And you won't be speaking philosophically.
DOS can answer that question just by showing you at the prompt like:
C:GAMES\Quake\ID1>
Your Linux system, by default, just shows your current directory.
Try this: open an xterm window. You'll see something like:
[billy@localhost billy]
Now type:
pwd
What do you see? Something like
/home/billy
The command pwd stands for print working directory. When you typed pwd, you were asking your Linux system, ``where am I?'' Your system responded by ``printing'' the directory you're in to the monitor (as shown in Figure 20).
Seems easy, right? It ought to be; you'll be using pwd plenty as you look around. (Even Linux gurus depend on this little command.)