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Re: Symlinks handled inconsistently by cd and wild card expansion
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Symlinks handled inconsistently by cd and wild card expansion |
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Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:28:58 -0400 |
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On 3/30/17 3:13 AM, Topi Mäenpää wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
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> The cd command remembers where I came from, and "cd .." from a
> symlinked directory comes back to the directory of the link. Wild card
> expansion works differently and always reads the link target. I
> understand the reason in general, but it would make sense that they
> behaved the same when used on the command line.
You should run `cd -P' or `set -o physical' to get the behavior you
want. Posix defines `cd' to behave in the logical file system fashion
that bash does.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/