Unable to pbcopy at Vim's ED editor

Question

I have tried unsuccessfully to copy the pwd to pbcopy as follows

pwd | !pbcopy

How can you copy your path in Vim's ED editor (: -mode)?

Answer 1

Why not :!pwd|pbcopy?

Use the command

cd

to the current working directory if needed with the command

lcd %:p:h

Answer 2

A lot of ways

in terminal
pwd | !pbcopy
and then in vim
"*p

in vim
:!r pwd
or in insert mode
<C-R>=getcwd()<CR>
or
<C-R>=system('pwd')<CR>

Current file location to the clipboard

:let @*=expand('%:p:h')

Current vim dir to the clipboard

:let @*=getcwd()