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Re: Bug or Feature? make follows symbolic link for current directory
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Bug or Feature? make follows symbolic link for current directory |
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Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:59:14 +0200 |
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On Jul 07 2023, Paul Smith wrote:
> Your _SHELL_ may know how you got there, because your shell is handling
> your "cd" operations and so it can keep track of this. That's the PWD
> env var that Kaz discusses. But other programs can't know this.
But other programs _can_ make use of PWD and keep maintaining it, just
like the shell will do if the incoming value of PWD still points to the
real cwd.
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