Eh? What's that? Couldn't hear you in the back.... | [reply] |
Hmm. Good point. Yes, I am talking about the filesystem.
Thanks for the observation - something else to think about.
For the part of the process using this function, I am really
just needing the textual transform. The filesystem walk happens
later.
Mik | [reply] |
/a/b/c/../d/e/f
and c is a symlink, YOU CANNOT reduce that string unless you do a readlink on c. I wrote some code to do it once. One of my
UnixReview columns I think. | [reply]
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I realize I have been bitten by zsh-centric behaviour.
Given the path /a/b/c/.. and given that c is a symlink to
/x/y/z I got different results depending on which shell I
used when I said. sh, csh and tcsh all said the correct answer was /x/y.
ksh, bash and zsh said /a/b was the correct answer.
Therefore, some shells are broken and some are not.
According to the FreeBSD manpage, there is a POSIX.2 specified
behaviour for cd. I am not aware that I have access to the
POSIX.2 standards. Can somebody who does have access tell me
if POSIX.2 defines the behaviour of cd in this case?
Thanks,
Mik
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