From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14611 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2013 21:48:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 17736 Received: (qmail 29666 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2013 21:48:24 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO, SPF_HELO_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@zsh.org From: Christian Neukirchen Subject: Re: Outputting colored zsh prompts from an external script Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:48:05 +0100 Sender: chris@juno Message-ID: <871ub431wq.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20130324192345.GA20437@kaeru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.84.9.5 In-Reply-To: <20130324192345.GA20437@kaeru> (seanh's message of "Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:23:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) seanh writes: > This all works fine, I've got my Python script ouptutting a nicely > truncated current working directory I ported this to zsh for fun: fishpwd() { local maxlen=${1:-20} pwd local -a segs segs=("${(s:/:)${(D)PWD}}") for i in {1..$(($#segs-1))}; do pwd=${(j:/:)segs} (( $#pwd <= maxlen )) && break segs[$i]=${segs[$i][1]} done print $pwd } fishpwd 30 fishpwd 20 fishpwd 10 fishpwd -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org