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Idiom #106 Get program working directory

Assign to string dir the path of the working directory.
(This is not necessarily the folder containing the executable itself)

dir = os.getenv("PWD") or io.popen("cd"):read()

Tries to get a system environment variable PWD. If it is a linux system, it will contain working directory. Will ignore io.popen() then due to short-circuit evaluation.
If enviroment variable PWD doesn't exists, it executes cmd command "cd" and reads the result, which will work on windows systems.
String path = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("").getPath();
import java.io.File;
String dir = new File("").getAbsolutePath();

"... If this abstract pathname is the empty abstract pathname then the pathname string of the current user directory, which is named by the system property user.dir, is returned."
String dir = System.getProperty("user.dir");

The "user.dir" property will return the user working directory.
with Ada.Directories; use Ada.Directories;
Dir : String := Current_Directory;
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dir = os.getenv("PWD") or io.popen("cd"):read()
String path = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("").getPath();
String dir = new File("").getAbsolutePath();
String dir = System.getProperty("user.dir");
Dir : String := Current_Directory;
char *dir = getcwd(NULL, 0);
dir = std::filesystem::current_path();
string path = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
string dir = absolutePath;
  interface
     function c_getcwd (buf, size) bind(C,name="getcwd") result(r)
       import
       type(c_ptr) :: r
       character(kind=c_char), dimension(*), intent(out) :: buf
       integer(kind=c_size_t), value :: size
     end function c_getcwd
  end interface

    if (c_associated(c_getcwd (buf, size(buf,kind=c_size_t)))) then
       n = findloc(buf,achar(0),1)
       allocate (character(len=n-1) :: dir)
       dir(1:n-1) = transfer(buf(1:n-1),dir(1:n-1))
    end if
dir, err := os.Getwd()
def dir = new File('.').absolutePath
dir <- getCurrentDirectory
let dir = process.cwd ()
$dir = getcwd();
dir := expandfilename('.');
my $dir = getcwd();
dir = os.getcwd()
dir = Dir.pwd
let dir = env::current_dir().unwrap();