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Re: symlink weirdness
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: symlink weirdness |
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Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:47:55 -0400 |
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In article <db3559c4.0409161102.21316ace@posting.google.com>,
rdnews@dahlsys.com (Roger Dahl) wrote:
> Not really... If you're in ~/bin/ and you need to go to ~/, 'cd ..'
> will get you there regardless if ~/bin/ is actually a symlink to
> somewhere else in the filesystem.
That depends on the shell and the options you've set. Some shells track
the name you used to get to a directory, and perform their own
interpretation of ".." using that. Others (or these shells when this
feature is turned off) just follow the ".." links in the filesystem.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
- symlink weirdness, Roger Dahl, 2004/09/13
- Re: symlink weirdness, Barry Margolin, 2004/09/13
- Re: symlink weirdness, Sam Holden, 2004/09/13
- Re: symlink weirdness, Roger Dahl, 2004/09/14
- Re: symlink weirdness, Stefan Monnier, 2004/09/14
- Re: symlink weirdness, Roger Dahl, 2004/09/15
- Re: symlink weirdness, Stefan Monnier, 2004/09/15
- Re: symlink weirdness, Roger Dahl, 2004/09/16
- Re: symlink weirdness, Paul Jarc, 2004/09/16
- Re: symlink weirdness,
Barry Margolin <=
Re: symlink weirdness, Barry Margolin, 2004/09/13
Re: symlink weirdness, Tim Smith, 2004/09/14