On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:19:34AM +0800, Clark J. Wang wrote: > My PS1 depends much on PROMPT_COMMAND. For example, my PROMPT_COMMAND will > trim very long $PWD to a shorter one (depends on the window size of current > terminal): > > [r...@server ~/directory/loooooooong/very/a/is/this] # ----> > [r...@server ~/.../very/a/is/this] #
The same thing could be done with a command substitution inside PS1.
