I can't remember where, but I've already seen the bash prompt's current path shortened in an interesting way: every directory contained in the path (excepted the last one) is replaced by its first letter only. For instance: path/to/some/directory would be shortened to p/t/s/directory.
How can I reproduce that behavior ?
After playing with this for a while I got the answer you require:
Add this to your .bashrc file in your home directory, exit the terminal and renter it and you will get you prompt.
PS1='$(eval "sps")$ '
sps() {
echo "$PWD" | sed -r 's|/([^/]{,2})[^/]*|/1|g'
}
It uses the declared function sps() to evaluate the path every time the variable PS1 which is the prompt, is displayed
ie
/ho/de/De/Ap/Ti$ pwd
/home/deth/Desktop/Apps/Tivo
/ho/de/De/Ap/Ti$
Or...if you insist on the one letter
PS1='$(eval "sps")$ '
sps() {
echo "$PWD" | sed -r 's|/(.)[^/]*|/1|g'
}
Which displays:
/h/d/D/A/T$ pwd
/home/deth/Desktop/Apps/Tivo
/h/d/D/A/T$
