Re: symlink weirdness

[Paul Jarc]

rdnews@dahlsys.com (Roger Dahl) wrote:
> 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.

The shell remembers the full path for its cwd to make that work.  But
".." will not mean the same thing if used directly in system calls or
most other programs; try "ls ..".


paul