Show Full Path in Terminal Opern Iterm, duh! Go to you home direct Type: cd ~ Type: mate .bashrc Type: export PS1=" " Between the quotation marks, you can add the following lines to customize your Terminal prompt: \d – Current date \t – Current time \h – Host name \# – Command number \u – User name \W – Current working directory (ie: Desktop/) \w – Current working directory, full path (ie: /Users/Admin/Desktop) export PS1="\u@\h\w$ " which will look like: Admin@MacBook~Desktop/$ " mate is text mate you need to install it in mac to make it work or you can also use free editors like nano, vi/vim. Source: soniajahid