Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!ngs!news From: kivinen@cs.hut.fi (Tero Kivinen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Csh question: Doing cd .. from a symbolically linked directory Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 90 10:51:06 GMT References: Sender: news@ngs.fi (The news system) Distribution: comp.unix.shell Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 11 In-reply-to: jerry@slhisc.uucp's message of 24 Oct 90 15:01:01 GMT In article jerry@slhisc.uucp (Jerry Liebelson) writes: > Is there a way to set things in the csh such that when I do the cd .. > from /tmp/c, I will end up in /tmp and not in /tmp/a? Try alias .. 'cd /$cwd:h' in your .cshrc, and then typing .. works. This will work in csh or in tcsh. -- ______ ______ _ , !Tero_Kivinen@hut.FI ! Work : +358-0-451 4032 ! / / ' ) / !Tero Kivinen ! Voice: +358-0-523 542 ! --/ --/ /-< ! ! Data : +358-0-524 207 ! (_/ (_/ / ) +---------------------+------------------------+