Behaviour of .. with symbolic links. - (nf)

notes at iuvax.UUCP notes at iuvax.UUCP
Tue Mar 27 16:05:54 AEST 1984


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iuvax!apratt    Mar 26 19:13:00 1984

One way to fix this, I think, to work like your mind works is to do some clever
aliasing:
	make "cd name" push the current directory to the directory stack,
then change to name (possibly a link).
	make "cd .." change to the directory which is at the top of the
directory stack, then pop the stack.

It may have to be a script checking for ".." as the first arg to "cd", rather
than a straight alias, but that would work, I think.

					-- Allan Pratt
		...Just trying to be helpful...
		Posting this so people can poke holes in it...



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