Hello, I have created a symbolic link in my home directory that points to another directory on the server. This is a nice shortcut to that other directory. However, when I cd into the other directory through my symbolic link, then echo the current working directory with either "pwd" or "echo $PWD", the pathname takes into account the fact that I accessed it from a symbolic link.
I'm not disputing this, but rather I'm curious of what's keeping track of this -- my shell session (bash)? I would have made the assumption that once I switched to the other directory, I am now for all intents and purposes in that other directory with no memory of the original, but in this I am wrong. I'm not really new to Unix but I must admit that I've never really experimented with symlinks before. (Also, I've found a nice workaround is to use an environment variable containing the path to the other directory, and instead of "cd symLinkedDirectory" just use "cd $otherDirectory".) Erik _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
