How to get the current path in Finder?

In Windows, the explorer has a very clear address box showing the path of current directory. That is so convenient and useful in all many situation such as copy the path for opening in cmd, for browser to choose path to upload, etc. Finder in Mac is quite confusing for a newbie Window switcher. How can we get something of similar convenience?


The Windows Explorer has a nice convenient address box!

The Finder in Mac has show the in the title bar the current folder. As shown in the picture below, one can find that the Finder is display the content at Pictures. But wait, where exactly is "Pictures" locate at the harddisk?



You can find that out by using "Get Info". As you can see, for convenience, I customize the Finder to show the "Get Info" button. Or you can "Right Click" within the FInder window to choose "Get Info". Then the "Where" can be found under the "General" section. Pretty inconvenient.

There is a better alternative. Isn't it cool to show on the title bar the full path?


To enable this is easy. Open up a terminal and enter the following command:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

To revert the setting, just type the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool NO

It is still a big behind from the Windows Explorer. I would like to have a box which I can type the location and the Finder will go to that folder directly. Or at least, something that let me copy the path.

If anyone of you know the solution, please let me know.