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Brian
Brian

Reputation: 508

Display the current directory name in bash terminal window

I have several terminals open in one window, with the title showing the fullpath of the current directory. The problem I'm having is: the paths are so long it's hard to distinguish between them.

What I would like to display is the current directory name (not the full path) in the title.

Here is my current title in my .bashrc 

   PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;$$ ${BRANCH} ${PWD/#$HOME} \007"'

I thought just replacing the $PWD with $CWD would work, but bash doesn't have it built in. This solution below only works the first time.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/22235278/345097 After changing directories again the title never gets updated. export DIR=`echo $PWD | rev | cut -f1 -d'/' | rev` export DIR2=`basename ${PWD}` PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;$$ ${BRANCH} ${DIR} \007"'

Here's my PS1 as a reference: PS1="[\033[00;31m]\h [\033[00;32m] \w [\033[00;36m] > [\033[00m]"

Example:

cd /share/project/master/app/src/com/project/dao

Currently the Title displays

5670 master /share/project/master/app/src/com/project/dao

Desire Title
5670 master dao

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5797

Answers (1)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 532093

Since $PWD is guaranteed to be a directory, you might use either of the following:

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;$$ ${BRANCH} $(basename "$PWD") \007"'
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;$$ ${BRANCH} ${PWD##*/} \007"'

Upvotes: 5

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