> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Maciej Zenczykowski > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:19 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: RE: [CentOS] When ".." isn't the same? (not a problem > > > I believe I understand what you're describing and it's been a long time > > since I've had this 'issue' but if I remember correctly, it's a function > > of your shell, which I believe is going to be bash. It tries to be > > intelligent about its symlink handling. It remembers the cd path you > > used to get to that symlink and 'cd ..' sends you back the same way you > > got in. It basically treats symlinks as real directories, not pointers. > > This can be very useful but it can also be annoying. I'll bet if you use > > tcsh, which uses a more literal interpretation of the file-structure, it > > would work as you expect. I wasn't ever interested in it enough to see > > if it could be disabled in bash. > > I believe the proper option is -P as in "set -P" in bash to disable this > feature (IMHO very useful). Indeed -- -P If set, the shell does not follow symbolic links when executing commands such as cd that change the current working directory. It uses the physical directory structure instead. By default, bash follows the logical chain of directories when performing commands which change the current directory. -- Marc