Re: truncating the path in the bash prompt?

[Chet Ramey]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> Actually, a feature that would be REALLY helpful is a way to specify
> certain directory strings that should be abbreviated. For example, I
> build KDE from sources, with source in /usr/local/src/kde/svn/trunk and
> build objects in /var/local/build/kde/svn/trunk. It would be great if
> bash could abbreviate these as, say, "$src$' and '$build$',
> respectively. (That is, I would somehow tell bash that I want the
> leading directory component "/foo/whatever/" abbreviated as "bar", where
> both of those are arbitrary strings. As another example, abbreviate
> "/net/remote2/corp/home3/" as "~" :-). Yes the slash should be stripped;
> the idea being that "/net/remote2/corp/home3/dan" would become "~dan".)

You can already do something like this with parameter pattern substitution
on $PS1, though it quickly becomes unwieldy.

Chet


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