"Marcel M. Cary" <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> If cd_to_toplevel had concatenated $(/bin/pwd) with $cdup to
> avoid the separate "cd", it would require checking for $cdup
> being an absolute path. I wasn't sure how to check that in
> a way that is both portable and clearly faster than "cd",
case "$v" in
/*) : handle absolute path ;;
*) : everything else ;;
esac
In all shells that support "case..esac", it is built-in.
Having said that, I think it would probably be better to bite the bullet
and start using "cd -P" soon after 1.6.1 goes final, and at the same time
existing places that use "cd `pwd`" as a workaround if there are some.
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