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RE: Strange symlink and mv interaction
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:35:54 -0600
- Subject: RE: Strange symlink and mv interaction
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
> Tilde expansion is usually done by the shell. However,
> judging from the
> rest of your message, you meant the above to say
>
> mv -- --1.2 ../tla--escapes--1.2
I did.
> This is the expected behavior. The symlink takes you to the
> directory,
> but the ".." uses the actual parent directory entry, which
> points to /c.
> If you want this to work seamlessly, create an actual
> "~/src/myprojects"
> directory, and use 'mount' to map /c/MyProjects to
> /home/rdparker/src/myprojects.
Thanks, I don't know why I didn't do that in the first place.
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