How to get absolute path on a zsh prompt?
To preserve original prompt format (colors, git info and potentially other customisations before this one) except related to path info, you could append following to the end of ~/.zshrc:
PROMPT=${PROMPT/\%c/\%~}
As pointed out by @caleb-adams and @fend25 the key is replacing
%c
(just folder name) with%~
to include full path (or absolute from $HOME when under ~). See http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html for more info
Simplest way to add bash-style dir path to the prompt. Just add this to ~/.zshrc
:
setopt PROMPT_SUBST
PROMPT='%n@%m: ${(%):-%~} '
The part with the path is ${(%):-%~}
. Colouring could be added according with your lifestyle:)
As Horacio Chavez mentioned in the comment above, you want to look here: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html for the details on how to change your displayed path in zsh.
In this case if you are looking for a path that is relative to your home folder, include a %~
in your zsh-theme file. Your prompt would now look like this:
PS1='${SSH_CONNECTION+"%{$fg_bold[green]%}%n@%m:"}%{$fg_bold[green]%}Location: %~%{$reset_color%}$(git_prompt_info) '
note, I only changed one character in your prompt. the %c
was swapped for the %~
. %c
will only give your current directory (see the document link above, or here)
For a full path you could use %/