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how do i display the path name to the bash shell

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how do i display the path name to the bash shell?

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Re: how do i display the path name to the bash shell

You mean put the current working directory into the prompt "like DOS" ?

Or just type
pwd
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Re: how do i display the path name to the bash shell

Or do you mean the full path to the bash binary?

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Re: how do i display the path name to the bash shell

only thing to remember - if there are space chars in the path, either escape them using '\' or put the path in quotes.

using `find` instead of `ls -A`, is another helpful hint, when iterating through dirs and files with spaces
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