2Bash: Resolve symlinks in your working directory
Say you have created a symlink from your home dir to another location:
$ ln -s /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs ~/htdocsNow you can easily change to the XAMPP htdocs: cd ~/htdocs and then get back home: cd ..
But how do you get to xamppfiles?
Update: Thanks to sapphirepaw, the solution is simple: cd -P htdocs/.. or to resolve your current wd: cd -P .
Less optimal methods follow:
The secret is pwd -P, which outputs your “real” working directory with symlinks resolved. By escaping this with $(...), we can include this in a cd command:
$ cd $(pwd -P) # change working directory to the real current path.So to get to xamppfiles from home:
$ cd htdocs $ cd $(pwd -P)/..
A while back, I learned that `cd` itself accepts -P, so your final example can be simplified to: `cd -P htdocs/..`
Have fun!
i have this alias defined for this purpose :)
alias cdwd='command cd "$(/bin/pwd)";pwd'