When installing a lot of CGI scripts, you are required to enter the full path on your server to a specified file or directory. This is what the UNIX pwd command is for. To find the full path on your server to a directory, first, change to the directory you wish to find the full path of by using the cd DIRNAME command.

Once your inside the directory you want to find the full path of, type pwd at the telnet prompt. This will display the full path on your server to the directory you are currently in. Here's what my screen looks like:

bash-2.01$ cd html
bash-2.01$ pwd
/usr/www/promotio/html
bash-2.01$ 

In this example, the full path to the directory I am currently in is /usr/www/promotio/html. By using the pwd command you can find the full path to any directory on your server.