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Re: truncating the path in the bash prompt?

From: Matthew Woehlke
Subject: Re: truncating the path in the bash prompt?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:49:59 -0600
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Paul Jarc wrote:

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
}


Yike. Okay, but if that's possible, what's the point of PROMPT_DIRTRIM? :-)

Anyway, I like this better:
PS1="...\$(mypath  \"\w\")..."

:-)

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