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From: wesommer@ICARUS.mit.edu (William E. Sommerfeld)
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Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 15:30:08 EDT
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In article <2268@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
.. with respect to symlinks warping you through the filesystem space..
>Indeed it does depend on your point of view.  I see symlinks as the
>global jump to the distant place in the hierarchy, not "..".   This
>would be readily apparent if the C shell and other shells that keep
>a 'current working directory' variable weren't ignorant of symlinks.
>
>kyle jones   <kyle@odu.edu>   old dominion university, norfolk, va

If you want to mean '..' to be 'back' rather than 'up', use pushd
rather than cd.

I find the following (csh) aliases useful: it puts the true absolute
pathname of the working directory in your prompt.  Unfortunately, it's
a bit slower, but that's because pwd is an order N**2 crock.

	alias	np	'chdir `pwd`; set prompt="{${cwd}}\\
% "'
	alias 	cd	'chdir \!*; np'
	alias 	pushd	'pushd \!*; np'
	alias   popd	'popd \!*; np'

				Bill Sommerfeld
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