Erwin Waterlander <water...@xs4all.nl> writes:
> It looks like that on your system the auto mounter has mounted your
> $HOME to
> /mnt/nfs/sripe-server/home/user/staff/depatment-xx/j/ja/jaalto
> What path do you get if you type `pwd' and `/bin/pwd' in your $HOME
> directory?

The example was under SunOs, where I have no control.

> Wcd will report the same path as `/bin/pwd', and that is different
> than the shell builtin `pwd' command. For instance if you cd to a soft
> link that is a link to a directory `pwd' will report a different path
> than `/bin/pwd'.

Understood.

>> ... Alternatively add new
>> configuration option that would export path using tilde.

I'd gladly resolve to the alternate solution, where user can ask the
program to do the conversion. Most user's use wcd() for their personal
files, where the tilde(~) solution works; with caveats that can
be expressed in manual page when the option is used.

Jari



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