Today’s lesson: Mind the symlinks
Read OriginalThis technical blog post details a Unix pitfall where using 'cd ..' after following a symlink behaves differently in shell commands versus programming languages like Python or C. The author demonstrates that shells resolve '..' logically, while chdir() follows the physical path, and explains the shell's '-P' option to control this behavior.
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