On 2024-07-16 15:31, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024, at 3:47 AM, David Hedlund wrote:
Do you think that it would be appropriate to submit this feature request
to the developers of the rm command instead.
How would this help? The rm utility cannot change the working directory of the
shell that invokes it, or of any other process. Even if it could, that
wouldn't help you if a different utility/application did the unlinking.
(Never mind that there are no canonical "developers of the rm command". GNU is
not the only implementation in the world.)
I appreciate your input. To be honest, I'm currently juggling multiple
tasks and don't have the necessary bandwidth to fully consider this
particular issue at the moment. Let's table this discussion for now.
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.
Behavior that is appropriate for GUI applications is not necessarily
appropriate for CLI utilities, and vice versa. The comparison is inapt.
