Extract the last directory of a pwd output

Question

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 c

Answer 1

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#.*/##'