…/P/A/T/H/shortener

File system's path shortener

💡 About

pathshortener is a file system's path shortener written in portable sh inspired by Fish's prompt_pwd command and Starship's Directory module.

🚀 Setup

🧾 Dependencies

• Unix commands to process

📥 Installation

🔧 Manually

Option 1: using curl

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/pathshortener/main/bin/pathshortener > ~/.local/bin/pathshortener
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/pathshortener

Option 2: using git

git clone https://github.com/info-mono/pathshortener.git ~/.local/share/pathshortener
ln -s ~/.local/share/pathshortener/bin/pathshortener ~/.local/bin/pathshortener

📦 Package manager

For Bpkg user:

bpkg install info-mono/pathshortener

For Basher user:

basher install info-mono/pathshortener

If you can and want to port Pathshortener to other package managers, feel free to do so.

⌨️ Usage

Run 'pathshortener' in the terminal:

pathshortener PATHS

⚙️ Configuration

Pathshortener is configured through environment variables: export PATHSHORTENER_<SETTING>="<value>"

Value	Valid	Default	Description
PATHSHORTENER_TRUNCATION_LENGTH	<integer>	3	The number of parent folders that the current directory should be truncated to (set to 0 to disable)
PATHSHORTENER_SHORT_LENGTH	<integer>	0	The number of characters to display in truncated paths
PATHSHORTENER_TRUNCATION_SYMBOL	<string>	…/	The symbol to prefix to truncated paths
PATHSHORTENER_HOME_SYMBOL	<string>	~	The symbol indicating home directory

💌 Credits

Special thanks to:

• Fish by it's contributors
• Starship by it's contributors

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Made with ❤️ by @info-mono