ksh & perl approach to pruning long pwd prompts
Dave Corcoran
dave at aspect.UUCP
Fri May 10 01:53:35 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr25.122017.3868 at ttsi.lonestar.org>, root at ttsi.lonestar.org (System) writes:
> A recent spate of articles (in comp.unix.shell) about pwd style
Which I missed so forgive me if this has been proposed.
> A really long path is shortened by successively pruning leading path
> components until the length is less than a user-specified size.
> Pruned components are replaced with "..." as in
> Any suggestions for how to do this in ksh are welcome. Likewise for
> improved perl code.
Although this will not limit of the prompt to a specified size it is terse.
PS1='${PWD#$HOME/}'
You could substitute $DIR for $HOME and then set DIR to the
leading path you want trimmed.
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