showing full path in command prompt unix
 

How do I show the full path in command prompt Unix? By default it only shows the current directory. This does not work well for me as I have many "htdocs" directories, "cgi-bin" directories, etc.

depends on the shell. in bash/ksh you can do that with

PS1='$PWD'\$' '

what this does is it sets PS1 to "$PWD$ ", but the quoting makes it work as you'd expect it to.

put that in your .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc.

just a simple "pwd" will suffice. Minus the quotes of course.

I believe my shell is /bin/bash.