Re: pwd and prompt don't update after deleting current working directory

[David Hedlund]

On 2024-07-12 15:10, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/11/24 9:53 PM, David Hedlund wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Lawrence! I found this discussion helpful and believe it 
> > would be a valuable feature to add. Can I submit this as a feature 
> > request?
>
> I'm not going to add this. It's not generally useful for interactive
> shells, and dangerous for non-interactive shells.
>
> If this is a recurring problem for you, I suggest you write a shell
> function to implement the behavior you want and run it from
> PROMPT_COMMAND.
>
> That behavior could be as simple as
>
> pwd -P >/dev/null 2>&1 || cd ..
Do you think that it would be appropriate to submit this feature request 
to the developers of the rm command instead.

For comparision, caja (file manager in MATE) is stepping back as many 
directories as needed when it is located in a directory that is deleted 
in bash or caja.