Re: change up real directory from soft link

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2019-03-20 15:12, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 03:08:51PM +0000, mick crane wrote:
> > If I cd softlink then want to go up a directory from the real 
> > directory I'm
> > put back to ~/
> >
> > Is it possible to get the behavior going up a directory from softlink
> > actually goes up a directory the softlink refers to ?
>
> wooledg:~$ ln -s /usr/local/bin binlink
> wooledg:~$ cd binlink
> wooledg:~/binlink$ cd ..
> wooledg:~$ cd binlink
> wooledg:~/binlink$ cd -P ..
> wooledg:/usr/local$


thank you.

mick
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