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Four ways to extract the current directory name

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When you're programming a shell script, you often only need the current directory name, not the whole path that the pwd command returns. Here are four ways you can extract only the current directory.

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moopst ·
Rather than using the rev thing you can use $NF, the awk number of fields built in. Although I'll confess to using rev as a way to sort my .com's and yahoo.com's and my.yahoo.com's in a reasonable way.

holderm@harpo:~/frodoconf/toshiba$ pwd | awk -F / '{print $NF}' toshiba

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