Remove full path from terminal

Question

Is it possible to show in the terminal line only the current directory, not the whole path from the home folder?

I have now this: ilya@ubuntu:~/Dropbox/Web/folder/folder/$ and it takes almost all the screen...

Answer 1

The part before the $ in a shell is called prompt. It can be configured by changing the variable $PS1. There are is a similar question with good answeres.

The man page (see "Bash" and there "PROMPTING") says:

      \w     the  current working directory, with $HOME
             abbreviated with a tilde (uses the value of the
             PROMPT_DIRTRIM variable)
      \W     the basename of the current working directory,
             with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde

So you have to change \w to \W. Probably the initial value for $PS1 is stored in your .bashrc, that means you have to edit the file /home/YOUR-USER-NAME/.bashrc and you will find lines similar to:

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt

Change \w to \W in both lines and open a new terminal.