change up real directory from soft link

[mick crane]

hello,
If I doing something buried a couple of directories down from home I 
make a soft link to that directory in ~/ just for convenience.
If I cd softlink then want to go up a directory from the real directory 
I'm put back to ~/

Is it possible to get the behavior going up a directory from softlink 
actually goes up a directory the softlink refers to ?

maybe hard links  ? but I've been loathe to experiment with those as it 
makes me nervous I'll delete the original directory


mick

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