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Expectation:



  1. open lf or nnn;

  2. navigate to a desired location there;

  3. :q

  4. $PWD is the desired location.


Reality:


The state of the parent terminal is unchanged, directory change is local to the file manager.


Question:


Am I missing something?

Is there any way to break free from ls;cd;ls;cd;ls;cd;ls;cd;... curse?

Preferably without mc or any two-pane file managers.

I only need a lightweight visual aid for navigation, nothing more.


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This seems to be something documented in source code repositories rather than in help/man pages.


There are seem to be workarounds for each file manager:



In short, every file manager has some way to export the last folder path into a temporary file and there are example scripts in the repositories to help you wrap it into a shell command that will run the file manager and use the temporary file afterwards to perform the cd automatically.


I went with lf, copying lfcd.sh from repo folder and sourcing it into my ~/.bashrc. Now I can use lfcd when I need to quickly navigate somewhere.


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