Help w/ SED

[Speeddy]

Ok, I have a shell on a friend's OpenBSD box, and the default prompt (env var PS1) is bash-2.05$ I made the hack in the .bash_profile to get it to show:

"[username@hostname $PWD]$ "

like linux does, but since I am not at home right now, I dont have access to the Linux .bash_profile so I cant just copy the parameter over to his box. I need to know what the sed command would be to get it to remove all but the actual current directory name from $PWD

i.e. if i am in /home/speeddy/wine then i would like it to show me:

"[speeddy@onering wine]$ "
or if i am in /home i would like it to show me
"[speeddy@onering /home]$ "

etc... If anyone knows this or can think of how to do it, please email me

Speeddymon(NoSpAm)@yahoo.com

or reply here and hopefully it goes to my email since i checked the email notification checkbox

-Speeddy

 

[SamBones]

I don't believe you need SED to do this and this isn't a hack. It's an advertised feature of bash. Just add the following to your .bash_profile...

[tt] PS1="[\u@\h \w]\$ "[/tt]

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

If you really want sed to do the job, try

pwd | sed -e 's!/.*/\(.*\)!\1!'

 

[Speeddy]

Cool, thanks guys. I didnt even think about the escaped chars being used as a prompt, guess I should have rtfm'd a little harder...