I don?t understand why ".." isn?t working the same way for "ls" and "cd" when inside
a symbolic link. The reason I ask is that I made a link to a directory with some
scripts that saves output in "../output.txt" and I could not find the output until I
found that ".." isn?t the directory you see when you do a $pwd. I solved the problem
by making a directory and then make a link to each script in there.
I would just like to know:
1) if there is a good reason to this behaviour.
2) if there is a rule, so you know when ".." is level up from $ pwd and when it is
one level up from the link target.
3) if there is an alternativ way to point to the parent directory.
Personally I can't see why you would ever need ".." to be one level up from the link
target.
Example:
$ ln -s /home link_to_home; cd link_to_home
$ ls ..
bin dev home lib misc
$ cd ..;ls
link_to_home
Have a nice weekend
Ulrik
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