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Re: cd, pwd and symlinks
- X-seq: zsh-users 2628
- From: Rob Windsor <windsor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: cd, pwd and symlinks
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:11:34 -0500
- In-reply-to: Your message of "27 Sep 1999 19:05:02 EDT." <5lemfkez1d.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Reply-to: Rob Windsor <windsor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Verily did "Stefan Monnier" write:
>>> youkaidi ~ % mkdir foo
>>> youkaidi ~ % mkdir foo/bar
>>> youkaidi ~ % md bar
>>> youkaidi ~ % cd bar
>>> youkaidi ~/bar % ln -s ../foo/bar foo
>>> youkaidi ~/bar % cd foo
>>> youkaidi ~/bar/foo % ls ..
>>> bar
*>> youkaidi ~/bar/foo % pwd
*>> /udd/canon/foo/bar
*>> youkaidi ~/bar/foo % /bin/pwd
*>> /udd/canon/foo/bar
*>> youkaidi ~/bar/foo % cd ..
*>> youkaidi ~/bar %
>> Put `setopt chaselinks' or `setopt chasedots' in your .zshrc. From
>> the info pages:
> I must say I don't like the names and defaults. The names give the
> impression that chasing links is a very unusual feature while it's the
> normal unix behavior.
That depends wholly upon the shell. C-shell variants do it one way, sh
sorta does it like zsh (the items marked with a `*' above are like csh,
but because sh doesn't appear to have a builtin cd(1) or pwd(1)). Zsh
does it (by default?) the same way that ksh does.
The use of symlinks pointing to subdirs has long been flagged as A Bad
Idea due to the handling of `..', so "ymmv" when you choose to use them.
> But apart from that, I'm more often annoyed by `pwd' not checking the
> value it returns:
> ~/tmp-0% mkdir foo
> ~/tmp-0% cd foo
> tmp/foo-0% mv ../foo ../bar
> tmp/foo-0% pwd
> /home/monnier/tmp/foo
> tmp/foo-0%
> This is with 3.0.6,
And ksh does the same thing. Again, sh(1) doesn't do this because it
doesn't have a builtin pwd(1).
I'm surely not complaining about how zsh handles either of these behaviors,
I prefer a ksh-on-steriods look and smell for a shell.
-- Rob
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