Use tilda for home directory

[leana8959]

Hello !
I have a script that uses fd and fzf, the goal is to search through the file list to create a tmux session per project directory. I'm trying to improve it.

The problem

The path names gets quite long, with /Users/leana/ being repeated each time.
Is there a way that I could replace my $HOME path with a ~? (i.e. in the screenshot below, truncate up to repo/.)

This is (an excerpt of) the script that I use to generate the path I look for

set selected \
    (begin
        fd . $REPOS_PATH --exact-depth 2 --type d;
        fd . $PLAYGROUND_PATH --exact-depth 1 --type d;
    end 2> /dev/null | fzf)

What I've tried

The closest to what I want is this:
$ fd . --base-directory $REPOS_PATH --exact-depth 2 --type d (from #1321)
This kinda works, but it also removes the repos/ part. Since my script searches in multiple directories in ~, this doesn't work unless I add part of the path striped away back, which is cumbersome.

Thanks for the project, and thanks for reading my question !

[sharkdp]

Could you pipe the fd results into sed? Something like

sed -e "s@^$HOME/@~/@"

[leana8959]

Thank you, this is such an elegant and simple solution !

[xuhdev]

How can I adapt this solution to fd --color=always?