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Old 07-31-2012
Current working directory
Hi all,

How do I print the name of my current working directory only to screen?

Not pwd!

For example, if I was in /home/work I am looking for 'work' only
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Old 07-31-2012
Code:
$ pwd
/home/work
$ echo ${PWD##*/}
work

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Old 07-31-2012
There are also two commands, "dirname" and "basename", you might want to know about. Both are fed a pathname, "pathname" chops off everything up to the last "/" (thus leaving the filename without a path) and "dirname" doing exactly the opposite - it chops off the last "/" and everything following it:

Code:
$ x="/path/to/some/where"
$ basename $x
where
$ dirname $x
/path/to/some

I hope this helps.

bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 07-31-2012 at 02:49 PM.. Reason: typos corrected
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Old 07-31-2012
@bakunin - I think there's a typo in your post...Smilie
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Old 07-31-2012
Code:
pwd |awk ' BEGIN { FS="/"} {print $NF}'

Last edited by Scott; 07-31-2012 at 07:30 PM.. Reason: Code tags
 
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