Talk:PWD

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Revert[edit]

Please do your own research before reverting people’s changes. PWD meaning “people with disabilities” is extremely common.—Al12si (talk) 13:40, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I read the above after I had read and responded on my own talk page.
See User talk:Mitch Ames#Please do some research before you revert people’s changes.
Mitch Ames (talk) 09:59, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

One more idiotic Wikipedia policy. I can see I’ll quit again very soon. Good.—Al12si (talk) 17:08, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This was completely pathetic. The acronym was so commonplace it’s even used in Wikipedia itself…—Al12si (talk) 05:09, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

pwd(1)[edit]

I have never seen “present working directory” as the full form of pwd. If we’re talking “traditional” “Unix” command then it’s “print working directory”.—al12si (talk) 04:25, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The three references at pwd say "present ...". Mitch Ames (talk) 12:39, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html says “print”. And since I was specifically pointing out the word “traditional” please also see http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol2/shell.bun

I’ve used Linux for years until I switched a few years ago and have never seen “present” until yesterday. But it doesn’t really matter I guess. People are now going to say “present” because Wikipedia says it. So Wikipedia is actively helping replace a true traditional term with a neologism, falsely claiming the neologism to be “traditional”, and then using references to justify its actions.

This demonstrates the folly of Wikipedia’s references policy. If this can happen even to a well-documented Western thing, imagine what kind of bias the requirement for references is creating for articles about marginalized subcultures or non-Western cultures…—al12si (talk) 19:53, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So fix it. Update the pwd article to include "print working directory", citing the references, then update the disambiguation page to include both, eg:

pwd (print working directory or present working directory), the Unix command for locating one's current working directory

The need for reference is not a problem here - since apparently it is "well-documented". Mitch Ames (talk) 11:09, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]