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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: symbolic links are a botch
Message-ID: <14064@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 02:34:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.14064
Posted: Fri Jun 26 02:34:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 05:21:01 EDT
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Reply-To: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw)
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Keywords: .[.]* schema

In article <876@ttidca.TTI.COM> redden@ttidca.UUCP (John Redden) writes:
->It would be nice to have a consistant syntax for cd:
->
->cd .. takes you the real parent (as it currently does)
->cd ... takes you to the first symbolic link
->cd .... takes you to the second symbolic link
->
->cd ..[.]*.  takes you to the ith symbolic link
->
->One bad side effect (no considering implementation problems) would be
->that ... and the like would become illegal file names.
->
->Comments?

What about all the shell scripts that look for ".??*" expecting not to clobber
"." and ".."?  They are for sure going to clobber "..." etc.  

Mike Khaw
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