Shortening my prompt in Zsh

Question

I\'m having a lot of trouble getting zsh to shorten my prompt. I\'m currently using zsh with the agnoster theme and oh-my-zsh package manager.

My prompt currently gets a

Answer 1

Old question, I know, but as an alternative solution I just discovered powerlevel9k, an extension of agnoster (they appear practically identical bar a fair few tweaks), which has this functionality built in.

Just set it as your zsh theme, then in .zshrc set

POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH=2

which ensures that only two directories are listed.

Alternate options are outlined in the readme.