How to shorten the no of characters display for the current directory in the prompt

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Published on 2010-03-30T00:54:16Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 1:03 UTC
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Hi,

I am using bash, and in my .basrhrc: I have the following which defined how my prompt looks:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[\033[01;32m]\w[\033[00m]:[\033[01;34m]!:#[\033[00m]\$ '

I think the \w display the current path of the shell.

Is there any way to limit the number of character used to display the current path of the shell?

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