bash: set - Always display the physical directory and not the symbolic link path.

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Take into account the main readme for this section. README first.

Description of set -P: If set, do not resolve symbolic links when executing commands such as cd which change the current directory.

The documents directory has a symbolic link.

$ pwd
/home/training/Documents
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 training training 11 Jul  8 10:07 src -> ../scripts/

Without the set -P command, the result is:

$ cd src
$ pwd
/home/training/Documents/src

Setting the set -P gives the following result.

$ set -P
$ cd Documents/
$ pwd
/home/training/Documents
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 training training 11 Jul  8 10:07 src -> ../scripts/
$ cd src
$ pwd
/home/training/scripts