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Re: Named directory pointing to a symbolic link

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Named directory pointing to a symbolic link
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:08:47 +0100
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Jean Chalard <jean.chalard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It seems to me like the 'www' variable (which ought to be unset when I
> start the shell, it's not like it should be a special variable as far
> as I understand) has a strange behaviour : it points on /nonexistent
> when used as a named directory, and any attempt I do to have it point
> elsewhere with the export builtin doesn't work when the variable is
> used as a named directory, though it works when invoked as hash -d.
> Other variable names don't seem to behave that way.

Do you have NIS (Yellow Pages) on your system?  I've seen some odd things
when trying to extract home directories from that which I've never tracked
down.


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