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Showing full path in Terminal.

Here I am again! Sorry, sorry! :-)

How can I show full path prompt in Terminal? Now, I always see bash-3.1$ as the prompt. I know I could use pwd to check where I am standing at a certain moment but it would be easier if I could always see the full path at the command prompt.

Thank you!

Glore 2002.-

You want to use the "\w" flag in your PS1 environment variable. For example, in my .bashrc I have

export PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ',

where \u is for username, \h for hostname and \$ for the prompt symbol ($ for regular user, # for root). Edit: you may like to look at this.

Thanks Nylex for your help. I already changed my prompt with your explanation. Now, it looks much better and self explanatory.

Glore2002.-

Personally, I like to add colors and newlines to mine so that they are more readable. For some I change the title bars as well.

You can also vary what you get depending upon what terminal you are using (screen session, xterm, std console, etc). Here's a snippet

Code:

case "$TERM" in

xterm*|rxvt*)

        # PROMPT_COMMAND Sets title.

        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;$(date +%T) - ${USER}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

        export PS1="\n[ \t ] \n\[\e[34;1m\]\u@\[\e[31;1m\]\H:\w\n\[\e[0m\]$> "

        ;;

screen*)

        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;$(date +%T) - ${USER}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

        export PS1="\nScreen Session: [ \t ]\n\[\e[34;1m\]\u@\[\e[31;1m\]\H:\w\n\[\e[0m\]$> "

        ;;

linux*)

        export PS1="\nPhil's Terminal Prefs \t\a\n\[\e[34;1m\]\u@\[\e[31;1m\]\H:\w\n\[\e[0m\]$> "

        ;;

*)

        # First section attempts to set title with "\n\[\e]2;"

        # Title ends at first '\n' after title escape sequence

        # If setting title not possible, then "\n\[\e]2" is ignored and the ';' is shown along with contents of title.

        # On some terminals the entire title section will be ignored.

        export PS1="\n\[\e]2;Phil's Terminal Prefs \t\n\[\e[34;1m\]\u@\[\e[31;1m\]\H:\w\n\[\e[0m\]$> "

        ;;

esac