On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Rudi Ludwig <rud...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2009 20:38:03 Philip Guenther wrote: >> When the shell is started by konsole, or xterm, or login, it's >> working directory has already been set to $HOME. At that point, it >> can only see the physical path (sans symlinks). If you want it to >> see the logical path, then you need to have it do a chdir itself...as >> you figured out when you do 'cd' first thing. >> > So the shell starts whereever it is put to by xterm, konsole, etc. > and does not itself evaluate $HOME at start-up?
What do you mean by 'evaluate'? It doesn't chdir there itself. It knows HOME=/home/rudi, and it knows that its current working directory is /usr/home/rudi, but that's it. >> So, just put some logic into your .profile to cd $HOME if the >> physical directory is that of $HOME. >> >> case $PWD in >> $(cd $HOME && pwd -P) ) cd $HOME;; >> esac >> > I have put that at the end of my .profile and it works for remote login > (ssh). > But the KDE konsole and xterm still resist and display the physical > location at start-up instead of $HOME (~). When that happens, what do the following output? echo $PWD (cd $HOME && pwd -P) echo $HOME Philip Guenther
