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::::will say it is a directory, and you can do globbing on it just like normal dirs. You'd have to specifically remember to check if it's a symlink. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 20:53, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
:::::Ok, yes, bash is very inconsistent about how it handles symlinks. I remember talking with the bash maintainer about this, a number of years ago, and felt unsatisfied afterwards. In particular, <code>cd ../example</code> can fail, while <code>cd -P .; cd ../example</code> can succeed, because bash implements its own rules for about what directories are in the context of symbolic links, which conflicts with that of the underlying operating system. But that's a bash issue -- I do not know of any other language which suffers from that design. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 23:37, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
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