Save current directory in variable using Bash?

Question

What I\'m trying to do is find the current working directory and save it into a variable, so that I can run export PATH=$PATH:currentdir+somethingelse. I\'m not

Answer 1

This saves the absolute path of the current working directory to the variable cwd:

cwd=$(pwd)

In your case you can just do:

export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)+somethingelse