Re: [PLUG] traversing symbolically linked directories with bash

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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On 12/30/2011 10:24 AM, Jack Hill wrote:
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> .. is hard when the filesystem becomes non-hierarchical. Have a look at this Plan 9 article: http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/lexnames.html
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> Jack

I see where symbolic links to directories could be a problem.  In addition, if I create a "loop" with a symbolic link then the shell (or OS) has to detect that and save me from myself.

I'll just have to resign myself to this I guess and save symbolic links for files.
Bummer.

Eric
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