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Re: Fun with xterm window titles, or Yet Another golf challenge

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From:
Sven Neuhaus
Date:
September 7, 2001 01:50
Subject:
Re: Fun with xterm window titles, or Yet Another golf challenge
Message ID:
20010907105010.C5329@neopoly.com
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:01:44AM -0500, Craig S. Cottingham wrote:
> > E.g., if pwd is
> >   /Users/me/Documents/LearnC/FirstSteps
> > then I'd like
> >   .../LearnC/FirstSteps
> > to display in the title bar (or on the prompt).

Maybe sed is "good enough" for this job?

sed -e 's|..*\(/.*/.*\)$|...\1|'

-Sven
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