From: Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: cd, pwd and symlinks
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 20:05:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990930200541.A3469@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990927144235.A11234@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
Adam Spiers, on thelonious (adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
> Hubert Canon (Hubert.Canon@irisa.fr) wrote:
> > But I am a bit confused, because I would like that `cd ..' had the
> > present behaviour (when these options are unset) and that I use
> > another construct (like `cd ./..' for example) when I want to follow
> > links.
>
> Sounds like a reasonable request. You could implement it with a
> function:
>
> function ccd {
> # Chase Change Directory
> setopt localopts chaselinks
> builtin cd "$@"
> }
>
> and then do
>
> % ccd ..
>
> or even as a wrapper around cd, but I'll leave that as an exercise to
> the reader :-)
This is of course all stupid. If I had a brain I would have consulted
the manual before giving advice. Check out the -L and -P options to cd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-30 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-27 8:51 Hubert Canon
1999-09-27 13:02 ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-27 13:34 ` Hubert Canon
1999-09-27 13:42 ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-30 19:05 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
1999-09-27 23:05 ` Stefan Monnier
1999-09-28 0:11 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-28 0:47 ` Stefan Monnier
1999-09-29 1:11 ` Rob Windsor
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