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.
