How can I show the last (1 or 2) path instead of full directory?

[dsoegijono]

Instead of ~/User/Documents/folder1/folder2, I'd like to be able to just show /folder2 or maybe /folder1/folder2 so it doesn't take too much space. Is there a way for me to do this?

I'm looking at this section:

prompt_dir() {
  prompt_segment blue black '%~'
}

but I don't really understand what it means.

[apjanke]

See the "Shell State" section of the Prompt Expansion page in the Zsh reference manual.

You can stick a number between the % and ~ to limit the number of trailing path elements that are displayed. So, you could do:

  prompt_segment blue black '%2~'

to get the last two elements of the current directory.

See also the prompt-pwd function in Prezto. It does more advanced prompt "compaction", abbreviating all but the last path element with a single letter, so you still have more context about where you are.

[dsoegijono]

Thanks for the explanation @apjanke!

[ahmed-hdeawy]

step 1. open your .zshrc file by vim .zshrc

step 2. go to the end of your file.

Paste this code:

prompt_dir() {
  prompt_segment blue $CURRENT_FG '%c'
}