All, My apologies if this is a report of expected behavior. I'm primarily a Windows user, and despite spending the last year in Linux/Cygwin lands, I'm still very new to some things :-/
Create a symlink to a directory: $ cd /tmp $ ls $ ln -s /cygdrive/c/TEMP c_temp $ cd c_temp At this point, I'd expect "ls .." to give me a listing of /tmp. Instead, I get a listing for /cygdrive/c: $ ls -la .. total 733 -rwxr-xr-x 1 sam.robb unknown 0 Sep 7 2001 AUTOEXEC.BAT -rw-r--r-- 1 sam.robb unknown 0 Sep 7 2001 CONFIG.SYS (etc) Similarly, "find .. -maxdepth 1" gives: $ find .. -maxdepth 1 .. ../AUTOEXEC.BAT ../boot.ini ../CONFIG.SYS (etc) On the other hand, using "ls $PWD/.." gives the contents of /tmp, as does "find $PWD/.. -maxdepth 1": $ ls -la $PWD/.. total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 sam.robb unknown 0 Dec 10 11:01 . drwxr-xr-x 15 sam.robb unknown 4096 Dec 4 16:30 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 sam.robb unknown 103 Dec 10 11:01 c_temp -> /cygdrive/c/TEMP $ find $PWD/.. -maxdepth 1 /tmp/c_temp/.. /tmp/c_temp/../c_temp I see the same behavior under Linux, so the question is: is this a bash bug, or expected behavior? -Samrobb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
