On 2013-10-18 12:03, Manolo Martínez wrote: > > I guess what you want is the pwd of the client that currently has > > focus… I also need something like that for plumb(1)ing purposes > > That's probably what I want, yes. Thanks.
Environments only propagate to children, not their parents. You'll need to get
the pwd of the currently focussed window if you want to do that.
> Well, the following mouthful does it in fish (mutatis mutandis for other
> shells):
>
> pwdx (xdotool getwindowpid (xdotool getwindowfocus))
POSIXly:
pwdx "$(xdotool getwindowpid "$(xdotool getwindowfocus)")"
It seems pwdx is part of procps-ng.
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