Acredito que a palavra "atualmente" no corpo da pergunta induz ao erro, não? Pois eu fui testar os comandos builtin e eles funcionam com o --help no ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
sergio@sergioubuntudesktop:~$ pwd --help
pwd: pwd [-LP]
Print the name of the current working directory.
Options:
-L print the value of $PWD if it names the current working
directory
-P print the physical directory, without any symbolic links
By default, 'pwd' behaves as if '-L' were specified.
Exit Status:
Returns 0 unless an invalid option is given or the current directory
cannot be read.sergio@sergioubuntudesktop:~$ cd --help
cd: cd [-L|[-P [-e]] [-@]] [dir]
Change the shell working directory.
Change the current directory to DIR. The default DIR is the value of the
HOME shell variable.
The variable CDPATH defines the search path for the directory containing
DIR. Alternative directory names in CDPATH are separated by a colon (:).
A null directory name is the same as the current directory. If DIR begins
with a slash (/), then CDPATH is not used.
If the directory is not found, and the shell option 'cdable_vars' is set,
the word is assumed to be a variable name. If that variable has a value,
its value is used for DIR.
Options:
-L force symbolic links to be followed: resolve symbolic
links in DIR after processing instances of '..'
-P use the physical directory structure without following
symbolic links: resolve symbolic links in DIR before
processing instances of '..'
-e if the -P option is supplied, and the current working
directory cannot be determined successfully, exit with
a non-zero status
-@ on systems that support it, present a file with extended
attributes as a directory containing the file attributes
The default is to follow symbolic links, as if '-L' were specified.
'..' is processed by removing the immediately previous pathname component
back to a slash or the beginning of DIR.
Exit Status:
Returns 0 if the directory is changed, and if $PWD is set successfully when
-P is used; non-zero otherwise.