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From: dave@aspect.UUCP (Dave Corcoran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: ksh & perl approach to pruning long pwd prompts
Summary: how about ${PWD#$HOME/}
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Date: 9 May 91 15:53:35 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.122017.3868@ttsi.lonestar.org>
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In article <1991Apr25.122017.3868@ttsi.lonestar.org>, root@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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