Hi, I'm missing something very fundamental about symlinks. Say I want to test some trivial little program I've written, but want to make it easy to switch between revisions. I thought the following should work:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application -> version/0.3/ -rw-r--r-- 1 mdavids mdavids 0 2004-09-13 15:43 file drwxr-sr-x 5 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004-09-13 15:51 version "file" is some data I want to work on. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ cd application [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/application$ ls -l ../file ls: ../file: No such file or directory But bash even autocompletes the name "file" for me! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/application$ ls -l ../ total 12 drwxr-sr-x 2 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004-09-13 15:51 0.1 drwxr-sr-x 2 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004-09-13 15:51 0.2 drwxr-sr-x 2 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004-09-13 15:51 0.3 It's embarrasing for someone as terribly, terribly old as me to make such an admission of ignorance, but this is not the behaviour I would expect from symlinks. This is what I'd expect from MS shortcuts. Can somebody explain why this is, and what technique would yield something like the desired effect? Matthew -- -- 0419 242 316 ... (02) 6658 1607 -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. (Save as HTML or RTF) See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our people and our country, and neither do we." -- George W. Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
