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From: "Dai Itasaka" <ditasaka@silverbacksystems.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Where am I anyway?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:23:03 -0800
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myname@myhost> cd c:/temp/foo
myname@myhost> ls
bar/  foo.file
myname@myhost> cd bar
myname@myhost> ls
bar.file
myname@myhost> cd c:/temp/foo/bar
myname@myhost> ls
bar.file
myname@myhost> ls ..
bar/  foo.file
myname@myhost> cd c:/temp/foo/bar/
myname@myhost> ls
bar.file
myname@myhost> ls ..
bar.file
myname@myhost> cd ..
myname@myhost> ls
bar.file
myname@myhost> ls ..
bar/  foo.file
myname@myhost>


If the directory name you give cd meets this criteria:

    - start with a drive letter
    - end with a slash

then it looks like cd takes you where you want to go but it really
takes you one below so that you have to climb up one level to be safe.

Bash doesn't observe this problem. This is using tcsh.

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