Extract the last directory of a pwd output
bash, pwd, unix
Solution
Are you looking for basename or dirname?
Something like
basename "`pwd`"
should be what you want to know.
If you insist on using `sed`, you could also use
pwd | sed 's#.*/##'
Problem
How do I extract the last directory of a pwd output? I don't want to use any knowledge of how many levels there are in the directory structure. If I wanted to use that, I could do something like: ``` > pwd /home/kiki/dev/my_project > pwd | cut -d'/' -f5 my_project ``` But I want to use a command that works regardless of where I am in the directory structure. I assume there is a simple command to do this using awk or sed.