> In bash-3.0 this was added:
>
> kk. The `\W' prompt expansion now abbreviates $HOME as `~', like `\w'.
>
> It seems that a large number of people preferred things the way they
> were before, with \W giving the basename with no tilde abbreviation.
>
> Since there is no easy way of achieving this without resorting to
> PROMPT_COMMAND, could there be a new escape sequence added for it?
Unless I'm reading this wrong, ${PWD##*/} does the job (though it fails
if PWD == '/'). You can always use $(basename $PWD).
It's the current behavior that's tough to do using shell expansions.
Chet
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