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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:37:46+00:00

Here’s a rather elementary *nix question: Given the following symlink creation: ln -s /usr/local/projects/myproject/

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Here’s a rather elementary *nix question:

Given the following symlink creation:

ln -s /usr/local/projects/myproject/ myproject

… from my home directory /home/jvf/, entering the myproject symlink gives me a pwd /home/jfv/myproject/. Now, I would like to enter the parent directory of the directory I’ve symlinked to, but the cd .. command will only bring me back to my home directory /home/jfv/. Is there anyway to escape the symlink trail that I’ve entered, and instead have a pwd equal to the actual path of the myproject directory. That is, changing my pwd from /home/jfv/myproject/ into /usr/local/projects/myproject/?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just use -P (physical) flag:

    pwd -P

cd -P ..
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