[HOWTO] - Show Unix path in Finder window or Terminal Window?

[Iolaire]

Since I'm unfamiliar with the Unix paths and many things require you to know that path to a file now - is there a way to make the window toolbar show the Unix path to the current folder?
i.e. /applications/utilities/ or even the "apple path": Macintosh HD:Applications:Utilities.

Alternately if that can not be done is there a small fast utility that will give it to you in a copyable field?
Thanks,
iolaire

[scruffy]

I use

set prompt = "%B: %?%b%{\033]0;%n@%m:%c3\007%}%B %T; %b"

This puts the exit status of the last command, and the time it exited, in bold, and between : and ; (this allows cutting and pasting entire lines, since the shell ignores things between : and ; ) on the main window ( like : 0 15:01 ; ). In the title bar goes "username@computername:/where/I/am"

[Kartoffel]

You can have your .bash_login set the window title. Mine is set up with the form <b>[username]@[hostname] :: [path]</b>

<tt>TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h :: \w\007\]'
export PS1="${TITLEBAR}\n[\w]\$ "</tt>

[scruffy]

There are lots of other escape sequences, that one is not in the man page for tcsh, I'm not sure where it is documented. I should have mentioned where I cribbed from.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...59&mode=thread

Browse through there, there's some truly weird stuff people have worked out.

[sinebubble]

Kartoffel,
You-Are-The-Man=Kartoffel; export You-Are-The-Man

I love that tip. I routinely have 10 ssh sessions running and I'm tired of shift-command-t 'ing each window just to get a hostname in the titlebar. Wow!

[genghiscohen]

Ummm, are these answers providing a little more detail than the original question was seeking?
When you open the Customize Toolbar window, one of the available choices that you can add is Path.
Just my $0.02 worth...

[Iolaire]

Thanks for all the help!
I must say that genghiscohen is thinking along the same lines as me.

I have selected Customize Toolbar Path, this is what got me seeking the full path in a text format. What I'm seeking is in a normal finder window to have the UNIX path rather than the drop down "Mac" path given in the Customize toolbar Path in a paste-able method.

i.e. no path button but instead:
/applications/utilities/
or
Macintosh HD:Applications:Utilities
--- in the finder window not a shell window

My thinking is that the toolbar can be customized and thus someone should be able to do the same for the finder window as they suggest doing for the shell windows.

Don't ask me exactly how I would benefit from this feature, but I find it very helpful on the PC at work (usually creating a shortcut or sending a link to a networked file via email). I think it would help me get familiar with the deep folders that we are working with now on X.
Thanks,
iolaire

[sinebubble]

Ah, just like in Windows, you mean.