Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > On Thursday 12 February 2009 04:58:09 Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: >> > On Wednesday 11 February 2009 23:38:10 Rolf Brudeseth wrote: >> >> I would like to propose a new command for bash: >> >> >> >> ca [path] >> >> >> >> It returns the canonical path based on the current working directory and >> >> entered path. >> >> >> >> >> >> If the current working directory has been traversed through a symbolic >> >> link, then listing a higher level path using dotdot's do not always show >> >> I am looking for. Below is a trivial example: >> > >> > what's wrong with: >> > ca() { cd "$(readlink -f -- "$@")"; } >> >> ca() { (cd "$@" && pwd -P); } > > yes, that would be correct ... i thought he wanted to change to the canonical > path, not look it up
If you want to change to the canonical path just use cd -P. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, sch...@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."