Re: Bash file completion, symbolic links and pwd confusion

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From: Bill Page
Subject: Re: Bash file completion, symbolic links and pwd confusion
Date: 23:01 on 01 Feb 2007
I think you'll find that if you scratch the Made in China sticker off
your sunglasses, it says Hecho en Mexico, dude.

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=07312006

On 2/2/07, Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
There's stuff above here

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