Re: Directory completion problems

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/20/12 4:41 AM, Artur Rataj wrote:
> ~/a$ mkdir .java
> ~/a$ cd symlink
> ~/a/symlink$ cd ../.java/
> ~/a/.java$
> ~/a/.java$ cd ../
> ~/a$ rm -r .java && touch .java
> ~/a$ cd symlink
> ~/a/symlink$ cd ../.java/
> ~/.java$
> 
> Should it really be like that?

I can't reproduce it.  Is the following an accurate reproduction of what
you did?

z4.local(2)$ cd test
z4.local(2)$ ls -al
total 4
drwxrwxr-x   5 chet  admin   170 Apr 22 16:36 ./
drwxrwxr-x  88 chet  admin  2992 Apr 22 16:34 ../
drwxrwxr-x   2 chet  admin    68 Apr 22 16:36 .hidden/
drwxrwxr-x   2 chet  admin    68 Apr 22 16:36 .java/
lrwxrwxr-x   1 chet  admin     7 Apr 22 16:36 symlink@ -> ../test
z4.local(2)$ echo $PWD
/usr/local/build/bash/bash-20120420/test
z4.local(2)$ cd symlink
z4.local(2)$ echo $PWD
/usr/local/build/bash/bash-20120420/test/symlink
z4.local(2)$ cd ../.java
z4.local(2)$ echo $PWD
/usr/local/build/bash/bash-20120420/test/.java
z4.local(2)$ cd ..
z4.local(2)$ echo $PWD
/usr/local/build/bash/bash-20120420/test
z4.local(2)$ rm -r .java && touch .java
z4.local(2)$ ls -al
total 4
drwxrwxr-x   5 chet  admin   170 Apr 22 16:50 ./
drwxrwxr-x  88 chet  admin  2992 Apr 22 16:34 ../
drwxrwxr-x   2 chet  admin    68 Apr 22 16:36 .hidden/
-rw-rw-r--   1 chet  admin     0 Apr 22 16:50 .java
lrwxrwxr-x   1 chet  admin     7 Apr 22 16:36 symlink@ -> ../test
z4.local(2)$ cd symlink
z4.local(2)$ echo $PWD
/usr/local/build/bash/bash-20120420/test/symlink
z4.local(2)$ cd ../.java
bash: cd: ../.java: No such file or directory
z4.local(2)$ echo $PWD
/usr/local/build/bash/bash-20120420/test/symlink

Chet
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