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Old 02-11-2009
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Originally Posted by usfish View Post
Hi, thank you for your prompt response. I missed that condition. It is from the home directory and you type "..", and they meant to ask about ".." instead of $USER I guess.

I think there might be chance that bash fails on symbolic link?

What do you mean by "fail"?

If you want to cd to the physical parent directory, use the -P option:

Code:
cd -P ..