How to get the path to the current file (pwd) in Linux from C?

Question

I\'d like to know if it is somehow possible to run system("pwd") on the current DIR. So for example let\'s have this folder structure:

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Answer 1

Simply opening and reading directories does not change the current working directory. However, changing directory in your program will.

for reference,

#include 
#include 

int main() {
    char cwd[1024];
    chdir("/path/to/change/directory/to");
    getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd));
    printf("Current working dir: %s\n", cwd);
}