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

add this to ~/.zshrc

prompt_dir() {
  prompt_segment blue $CURRENT_FG '%2~'
}

Explanatory note: %~ will limit the number of path segments leading up to the current directory to N. I.e. %2~ will show only two last segments: the current directory and its parent directory.