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Re: truncating the path in the bash prompt?
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: truncating the path in the bash prompt? |
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Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:46:26 -0500 |
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Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Actually, a feature that would be REALLY helpful is a way to specify
> certain directory strings that should be abbreviated.
PS1='...$(mypath)...'
mypath() {
case $PWD/ in
/usr/local/src/kde/svn/trunk/*)
printf %s "${PWD/#\/usr\/local\/src\/kde\/svn\/trunk/\$src\$}";;
/usr/local/build/kde/svn/trunk/*)
printf %s "${PWD/#\/usr\/local\/build\/kde\/svn\/trunk/\$build\$}";;
*) printf %s "$PWD";;
esac
}
paul