Darren New wrote:
> Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>> NAME
>> realpath - return the canonicalized absolute pathname
>
> Funny thing is, back in the days before pwd was a built-in and when
> getcwd() actually forked and invoked /bin/pwd, cd'ing to a symlink and
> then asking for the pwd returned the canonical path. Which I suppose
> broke lots of stuff that wasn't expecting that either. :-)
In my post, I was trying to get across that you can have it either way.
see
help cd
help pwd
for the bash builtins, and look for the -P option ("physical").
As you describe above, /bin/pwd works like the builtin pwd -P.
Regards,
..jim
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