Crazy directory thing

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jun 8 14:25:34 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:19:50PM +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> > Andy, it sounds like an issue with symlinks.  I have come across this
> > before.  is the ~/incomming directory a symlink?  I ask this as I have
> > run into this issue when working from symlink directories.
>  Is this normal operation or is this a bug?
> I would definetly consider this a bug.  Will do research on this later.

It's a bash thing. Look for the -P option in the bash man page.
(Specifically, -P for cd, pwd, and set.)

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