On Jul 07 2023, Paul Smith wrote: > Your _SHELL_ may know how you got there, because your shell is handling > your "cd" operations and so it can keep track of this. That's the PWD > env var that Kaz discusses. But other programs can't know this.
But other programs _can_ make use of PWD and keep maintaining it, just like the shell will do if the incoming value of PWD still points to the real cwd. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."