Skip to content

cd not working in shells created by cursor #716

@gurelkaynak

Description

@gurelkaynak

Hi,

I started having an issue with the cd command when cursor agent creates shells and tries to cd to a directory. I get this error:

environment: line 5945: _omb_cd_dirstack[0]: unbound variable

Image

My bash syntax experience is minimal so I tried asking LLM agents. After trying different models, finally GPT-5 high reasoning model fixed it for me by modifying the directories.sh file with this command:

perl -0777 -pe 's/\$\{_omb_cd_dirstack\[0\]\}/\$\{_omb_cd_dirstack[0]-\}/g'

This is the description of the fix from GPT-5:

Oh My Bash aliases cd to _omb_directories_cd, which references _omb_cd_dirstack[0] without guarding for nounset, causing the unbound variable error in non-interactive shells.

I looked for issues/PRs related to this ("cd" or "unbound") but could not find any.

I will create a PR for this soon.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions