On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin at gmail.com>wrote: > On 7/5/11, Eric B. <ebenze at hotmail.com> wrote: > > The strange behaviour here is when listing the parent directory (..). > > In this case, ls .. is listing the contents of Mail/ directory - not > > /home/eric. > > > > In the past, I always recall being able to use the parent identified > > (..) to move up one level in the directory structure whether in a > > symlink or not. In this case, I would have expected ls .. to list the > > contents of /home/eric - not /home/eric/Mail. > > I believe it's normal. If I'm not mistaken, cd works based on the > working path i.e. /home/eric/test so cd .. goes to /home/eric > > However ls works by reading the .. inode of the directory you're in, > which will always point to the real parent /home/eric/Mail no matter > how you got to that directory. > > That's correct and it's the behavior most people seem to prefer. To change it use `set -o physical` in Bash. -- Giovanni Tirloni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110705/eff7b9ec/attachment-0004.html>