I'm writing a script to strip a working directory to a limited length using bash parameter substitution. It works on the command line, but the same substitution does nothing in the script.
The code:
#!/bin/bash
# Limit of working directory length
LIMIT=10
dir=${1/#$HOME/\~}
# If it's too long, normalize it by stripping ~ and adding ...
if [ ${#dir} -gt $LIMIT ]; then
dir=${dir/#\~/"..."}
fi
echo $dir
# Strip levels until short enough or can't strip anymore.
while [[ ( ${#dir} -gt $LIMIT ) && ( "$dir" != "$last_dir" ) ]]; do
last_dir="$dir"
# Strip a level off.
dir=${dir/#...\/*([^\/])/"..."} <- broken line
echo $dir
done
echo $dir
If I do
test=".../School/CS352/Project1"
text=${test/#...\/*([^\/])/"..."}
I get .../CS352/Project1
, which is what I want. But the same sub does nothing in my script.
Question: How do I make the marked line in the code behave like the example above?