Inside a linked folder, doing "ls" to relative paths outside it shows the contents pointed by linked directory, not the source. Is this correct?

Question

Suppose this directory structure:

/folder1/
/folder2/

Now, if I enter

cd /folder1
ln -s /folder2 linkToFolder2
cd /folder1/linkToFolder2
ls ..

I thought that, given that pwd is /folder1/linkToFolder2, doing a "ls .." would return /folder1's contents. However, it is returning folder2's. Is this behavior correct?

Does it answer your question? http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/180620/understanding-directory-symlinks-traversals-and-the-parent-directory — capum, May 29 '16 at 07:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 17 '18 at 23:36

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Your link points to /folder2.Your pwd is /folder1/linkToFolder2, that is the same than /folder2/, and 'ls ..' in all the cases should show you the above directory, whether if you are in /folder1 or /folder2

edited Mar 17 '18 at 23:36

Rui F Ribeiro

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answered May 29 '16 at 10:58

limace255

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Inside a linked folder, doing "ls" to relative paths outside it shows the contents pointed by linked directory, not the source. Is this correct?

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