Basename or extract of current working directory – Linux command output

By technese - Last updated: Thursday, November 24, 2011 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment

Four examples:

$ basename `pwd` 
$ pwd | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' 
$ pwd | sed 's#.*/##' 
$ echo "${PWD##*/}" 

Reference:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1744595/extract-the-last-directory-of-a-pwd-output

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html

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