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Im trying to create soft link to a directory....
in / I do the following
ln -s /incoming-dw/incoming-cc incoming
and as expected it does create the soft link in / as below
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 34 16 Oct 13:48 incoming-cc -[color=blue]
> /incoming-dw/incoming-cc[/color]
But the problem is if I try to
cd incoming-cc
pwd
/incoming-cc
How is this possible ? Should I not be in /incoming-dw-data/incoming-
cc ?
On 16 Oct, 14:50, invincible <imanuk2...@googlemail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Im trying to create soft link to a directory....
>
> in / I do the following
>
> ln -s /incoming-dw/incoming-cc incoming
>
> and as expected it does create the soft link in / as below
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 34 16 Oct 13:48 incoming-cc -
>[color=green]
> > /incoming-dw/incoming-cc[/color]
>
> But the problem is if I try to
>
> cd incoming-cc
> pwd
> /incoming-cc
>
> How is this possible ? Should I not be in /incoming-dw-data/incoming-
> cc ?[/color]
Sorry, I mean to say should not I be in /incoming-dw/incoming-cc ?
invincible wrote:[color=blue]
> On 16 Oct, 14:50, invincible <imanuk2...@googlemail.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> Im trying to create soft link to a directory....
>>
>> in / I do the following
>>
>> ln -s /incoming-dw/incoming-cc incoming
>>
>> and as expected it does create the soft link in / as below
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 34 16 Oct 13:48 incoming-cc -
>>[color=darkred]
>>> /incoming-dw/incoming-cc[/color]
>> But the problem is if I try to
>>
>> cd incoming-cc
>> pwd
>> /incoming-cc
>>
>> How is this possible ? Should I not be in /incoming-dw-data/incoming-
>> cc ?[/color]
>
> Sorry, I mean to say should not I be in /incoming-dw/incoming-cc ?[/color]
Guess it is a "feature" : what you type is what you get
My reasons for this :
If you use links to shorten paths, you get shorter path when doing pwd
or $PWD, bypassing problems some programs have dealing with long pathnames.
If you use links to mimic some non-existent dir, you still show up with
the simulated path and not the effective one, which could be mis-leading.
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invincible <imanuk2007@googlemail.com> writes:
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> Sorry, I mean to say should not I be in /incoming-dw/incoming-cc ?[/color]
Try '/bin/pwd'.
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On 17 Oct, 04:49, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov-...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> invincible <imanuk2...@googlemail.com> writes:[color=green]
> > Sorry, I mean to say should not I be in /incoming-dw/incoming-cc ?[/color]
>
> Try '/bin/pwd'.
>
> Cheers,
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Paul,
Perefect.... how does this happen ? does it mean there is a difference
between the /usr/bin/pwd and the /bin/pwd ?
ciao