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

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/16/24 3:47 AM, David Hedlund wrote:
> 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.

You can try, but I would not expect them to implement it.

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