Re: Bug on bash shell - $PWD (and consequentely prompt) not updated while renaming current folder.

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Bug on bash shell - $PWD (and consequentely prompt) not updated while renaming current folder.
Date	2020-06-20 13:50 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID	<mailman.168.1592675435.2574.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	<051e2fbabf3a9912e5d4248efba0f02b@goncalo.pt> <967ce82b-0167-909e-559e-b3a9f78e88fd@case.edu>

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On 6/19/20 8:51 PM, correio@goncalo.pt wrote:
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> When we rename the current working directory, $PWD doesn't get updated
> as it would as it would if we just did a simple "cd directory". 

Of course not. There is no mechanism to inform the shell that the file
system has changed from underneath it. The shell knows when it changes
its own working directory, and can adjust $PWD accordingly. In fact,
that is the only thing that changes $PWD.

-- 
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		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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