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How to get name of the current directory in Bash or Zsh
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- Ashik Nesin
- @AshikNesin
Sometimes, you might want to get the name of the current directory that you're working on.
In the bash/zsh shell script, you can use basename
basename cli will give just the directory/file name depending on the input path that you're giving.
In our case, we can pass on $PWD to get just the directory name like this:
full_path=$PWD # current working directory (eg: /Users/AshikNesin/Code)
directory_name=$(basename "$(dirname "$full_path")") #AshikNesin
Happy finding name!