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I have created a symbolic link to a deeply nested directory. Using symbolic link i can move to that directory from my home directory. I want to move one directory back from the target directory but the shell comes back to the home directory.
[root@pe1800xs ~]# pwd
/root
[root@pe1800xs ~]# mkdir -p abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno/pqr
[root@pe1800xs ~]# ln -s abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno/pqr/ xyz
[root@pe1800xs ~]# cd xyz
[root@pe1800xs xyz]# pwd
/root/xyz
[root@pe1800xs xyz]# pwd -P
/root/abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno/pqr
[root@pe1800xs xyz]# cd ..
[root@pe1800xs ~]# pwd
/root
What I want to achieve is that when I do cd.. in pqr directory the shell should come to mno directory.
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To navigate up one directory level, use "cd .." To navigate to the previous directory (or back), use "cd -"
Yes, the files and symlinks both have spaces in the names. One approach would be: 1) remember the old file location; 2) move the file, remember the new location; 3) and 4) read man find . Really. 5) find /directory_tree_containing_links -type l -lname "old file location" -print0 | xargs -0 somescript "new location" .
You can go back to the parent directory of any current directory by using the command cd .. , as the full path of the current working directory is understood by Bash . You can also go back to your home directory (e.g. /users/jpalomino ) at any time using the command cd ~ (the character known as the tilde).
The command to change locations is cd followed by a directory name to change our working directory.
You must use
cd -P xyz
to enter into that directory to follow the original structure of folders, then you can move as you wish because you have resolved the link to the real path.
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You have to pass -P option:
cd -P ..
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