On 3/30/17 3:13 AM, Topi Mäenpää wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> The cd command remembers where I came from, and "cd .." from a
> symlinked directory comes back to the directory of the link. Wild card
> expansion works differently and always reads the link target. I
> understand the reason in general, but it would make sense that they
> behaved the same when used on the command line.

You should run `cd -P' or `set -o physical' to get the behavior you
want.  Posix defines `cd' to behave in the logical file system fashion
that bash does.

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