Re: Csh question: Doing cd .. from a symbolically linked directory

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From: Tero Kivinen
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 1990 10:51

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In article <JERRY.90Oct24110101@sky.slhisc.uucp> jerry@slhisc.uucp (Jerry Liebelson) writes:
>      Is there a way to set things in the csh such that when I do the cd ..
>    from /tmp/c, I will end up in /tmp and not in /tmp/a?

Try alias .. 'cd /$cwd:h' in your .cshrc, and then typing .. works.
This will work in csh or in tcsh.
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From: kivinen@cs.hut.fi (Tero Kivinen)
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Subject: Re: Csh question: Doing cd .. from a symbolically linked directory
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Date: 25 Oct 90 10:51:06 GMT
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