Actually, '..' is the parent directory. If you cd to a symlink (like in my example above, 'cd test') you are put into a real directory, that happened to be symlinked. The '..' entry in this direcftory points to the *real* parent directory. It is not 'ls', 'mv', 'cp', etc that are misbehaving, it is actually the implementatin of 'cd' under bash that is going out of the correct behaviour.
Although I can understand the shortcut & benefit from an implementation like what you proposed, I cannot see it being done, since it would "give the wrong answer". -- .. in a symlinked directory is not what I expected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
