Current Working Directory output in an alias

Question

I want to create an alias that will print out the current working directory sub name.

I have this:

BASENAME=${PWD##*/}
alias wai="echo $BASENAME"

This outputs the directory subname of the directory .bashrc is stored in. I want it to be the current working directory.

Sorry if this is simple, I'm new to bash.

Answer 1

The trick is really just in the single quotes. I believe you can achieve this by doing the following:

'echo ${PWD##*/}'

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