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[Bug 503761] Re: bash behaves different on symlinks than the GNU tools

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From: dino99 <503761@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:18:23 -0000
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EOL reached or very close. Time to use some newer version.

** Changed in: gnubash
   Importance: Unknown => Undecided

** Changed in: gnubash
 Remote watch: Debian Bug tracker #538891 => None

** Changed in: gnubash
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  bash behaves different on symlinks than the GNU tools

Status in The GNU Bash Shell:
  Invalid
Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bash

  as example I have 'ln -s /tmp $HOME/tmp'

  when I now cd into tmp/ I correcty get to the /tmp folder, cd .. gets me back to ~. So far so good.
  now... when I'm in tmp and try to work with bash auto-completion or pwd I can't use cp, rm, mv, file, stat, etc... anymore
  when I do 'cp ../.bashr<tab>' it gets auto-completed to 'cp ../.bashrc' 
  but when I actually run the command 'cp ../.bashrc .' I get 
  cp: cannot stat `../.bashrc': No such file or directory

  you easily find out why that happens with 'ls ..' which shows
  bin   cdrom  etc   initrd.img      lib    mnt  proc  sbin     srv  tmp  var      vmlinuz.old
  boot  dev    home  initrd.img.old  media  opt  root  selinux  sys  usr  vmlinuz

  and finally pwd shows that bash and the GNU tools think differently:
  $ pwd
  /home/yofel/tmp
  $ /bin/pwd
  /tmp

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Jan  6 12:33:52 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: bash 4.1-1ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
  SourcePackage: bash
  Tags: lucid
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686

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