Current Working Directory

$PWD contains the absolute pathname of the current working directory.

The pwd command is helpful to work with the working directory.

Live Templates

The dir_posix and dir_bash live template insert a command to retrieve the full to the directory, where the current script is located:

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# Live template dir_posix inserts this:
DIR="$(CDPATH='' cd -- "$(dirname -- "$0")" && pwd -P)"