[Courses] [FS] Lesson 2 - Symlinks Question

[Travis Casey]

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 05:42, Random wrote:
> On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 11:04 America/Indianapolis, Travis Casey
>
> wrote:
> > Someone wanting to go from there to /usr/bin might type
> >
> > cd ../../bin
> >
> > but that would error, since /home/cs20/systems/sun4x/solaris/usr/bin
> > did not exist.  They'd think "WTF?  I know /usr/bin exists!  If it
> > didn't the system wouldn't work!"  They'd then either start trying to
> > investigate and (1) realize what was going on, or (2) get enormously
> > confused, or (3) call or email Systems and report that something's
> > wrong.
>
> the "fudged" cd won't help... as far as i know, while ".." is a special
> case, "../" or "../../bin" by extension, are not.

It works for me with bash... I have a symlink in /home/casey named 
"new-ebook" which goes to 
"./.brag/news.earthlink.net/alt.binaries.e-book.rpg/finished".

I just tried it with it.  Doing:

cd new-ebook
cd ../bin

takes me to /home/casey/bin, not to the (non-existent) 
/home/casey/.brag/news.earthlink.net/alt.binaries.e-book.rpg/bin .

And

cd /home/casey
cd new-ebook
cd ../../ehcasey

takes me to /home/ehcasey.


So the version of bash I have seems to do it, at least.

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