Re: Bash file completion, symbolic links and pwd confusion

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Bash file completion, symbolic links and pwd confusion
Date: 20:30 on 01 Feb 2007
Bash is doing the wrong thing.

You are in "foo/bar". There is nothing inside "foo/bar" for any program
you run to tell that you got there by following a symbolic link. Bash
is hiding this from you.

This is like getting on a plane and having it fly to the wrong airport,
and your Joo Janta Peril Sensitive sunglasses magically changing the name
of the city you're in to the one you were scheduled to go to whenever you
look at a sign.

This would be fine if it also magically moved the hotel you were booked into
to the new destination, and magically changed the cabbies so they knew about
the change. I'm sure that will be possible some time after the Singularity
and we'll all be living in mediated environments and forget there's a real
world, but I suspect there will be problems with that.

Hateful beggar, bash is.

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