Get current directory name without full path in a Bash script

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How would I get just the current working directory name in a bash script  or even better  just a terminal command   pwd gives the full path of the current working directory  e g   opt local bin but I only want bin

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You can use a combination of pwd and basename  E g      bin bash  CURRENT  pwd  BASENAME  basename   CURRENT    echo   BASENAME   exit

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No need for basename  and especially no need for a subshell running pwd  which adds an extra  and expensive  fork operation   the shell can do this internally using parameter expansion   result   PWD                 to assign to a variable  printf   s n     PWD         to print to stdout                                 more robust than echo for unusual names                                  consider a directory named -e or -n   printf   q n     PWD         to print to stdout  quoted for use as shell input                                 useful to make hidden characters readable      Note that if you re applying this technique in other circumstances  not PWD  but some other variable holding a directory name   you might need to trim any trailing slashes  The below uses bash s extglob support to work even with multiple trailing slashes   dirname  path to somewhere   shopt -s extglob             enable        glob syntax result   dirname             trim however many trailing slashes exist result   result              remove everything before the last   that still remains printf   s n    result    Alternatively  without extglob   dirname   path to somewhere    result    dirname    dirname              extglob-free multi-trailing-  trim result    result                          remove everything before the last

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There are a lots way of doing that I particularly liked Charles way because it avoid a new process  but before know this I solved it with awk pwd   awk -F    print  NF

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For the find jockeys out there like me   find  PWD -maxdepth 0 -printf   f n

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Below grep with regex is also working    gt pwd   grep -o   w -

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This thread is great  Here is one more flavor   pwd   awk -F     print  NF

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basename   pwd    or   echo    basename   pwd

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If you want to see only the current directory in the bash prompt region  you can edit  bashrc file in    Change  w to  W in the line   PS1    debian chroot    debian chroot     033 01 32m   u  h   033 00m      033 01 34m   w   033 00m         Run source    bashrc and it will only display the directory name in the prompt region   Ref  https   superuser com questions 60555 show-only-current-directory-name-not-full-path-on-bash-prompt

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Just use   pwd   xargs basename   or  basename   pwd

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echo    PWD           8203   8203   8203   8203   8203

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I strongly prefer using gbasename  which is part of GNU coreutils

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I like the selected answer  Charles Duffy   but be careful if you are in a symlinked dir and you want the name of the target dir  Unfortunately I don t think it can be done in a single parameter expansion expression  perhaps I m mistaken  This should work   target PWD   readlink -f    echo   target PWD        To see this  an experiment   cd foo ln -s   bar echo   PWD        reports  bar   DIRNAME  To show the leading directories of a path  without incurring a fork-exec of  usr bin dirname    echo   target PWD       This will e g  transform foo bar baz -  foo bar

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The following commands will result in printing your current working directory in a bash script   pushd   CURRENT DIR   cd  1  pwd   popd echo  CURRENT DIR

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You can use the basename utility which deletes any prefix ending in   and the suffix  if present in string  from string  and prints the result on the standard output    basename  lt path-of-directory gt

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How about grep   pwd   grep -o

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i usually use this in sh scripts   SCRIPTSRC  readlink -f   0     echo   0   RUN PATH  dirname    SCRIPTSRC      echo    echo  Running from   RUN PATH       cd   RUN PATH  subfolder   you can use this to automate things

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Use the basename program   For your case     basename   PWD  bin

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Surprisingly  no one mentioned this alternative that uses only built-in bash commands   i   IFS  IFS     set -f p   PWD  set  f IFS   i  echo    p -1      As an added bonus you can easily obtain the name of the parent directory with         p      -gt 1    amp  amp  echo    p -2      These will work on Bash 4 3-alpha or newer

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Use   basename   PWD    OR  IFS    var   PWD  echo   var -1      Turn the Internal Filename Separator  IFS  back to space   IFS     There is one space after the IFS

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echo   PWD    sed  s          If you are using Bourne shell or   PWD      is not available

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