Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How to find directory name at end of symbolic links Message-ID: <40@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 14 Mar 89 14:28:37 GMT References: <10@sherpa.UUCP> <9745@smoke.BRL.MIL> <304@unet.UUCP> <3803@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <27@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Distribution: na Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 10 In-reply-to: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) In article <27@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, I wrote: >> $ (cd /dir1/a ; /bin/pwd) >You may wish to do a 'set hardpaths' first. Oops! Sorry about that. you only need to set hardpaths if you use $cwd in csh. pwd always gives you the 'hardpath' -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@ge-crd.ARPA, barnett@steinmetz.ge.com uunet!steinmetz!barnett