On 5 July 2011 05:24, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:59 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> ls is behaving correctly. Bash is presenting a ridiculous fiction to
>> you via its "pwd" builtin, which lies. Try doing your test above
>> again, and wherever you type "pwd", also run "/bin/pwd" immediately
>> afterwards. Observe the difference: /bin/pwd tells you the truth and
>> pwd tells you something easy to remember, but not the truth.
>
> Or try:
>
> pwd -P
>
> (see "help pwd" from the Shell)
>

And cd -L and cd -P too.

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