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gnome-terminal: how to preserve symlinks of working directory when opening new tab?

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Mar 15, 20261439 views
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Problem

If I'm using in a working directory whose path includes symlinks and I open a new tab, the symlinks will be expanded to their destinations in the working directory of the new tab. Is there any way to preserve the symlinks when opening a new tab?

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gnome-terminal

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Fix for: gnome-terminal: how to preserve symlinks of working directory when opening new tab?

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This bug is being tracked on Ubuntu Launchpad and GNOME Bugzilla. Since this mainly annoys me with only a few directories, I use the following simpler workaround. Suppose you have as a symlink to . So you do in gnome-terminal, open a new tab, and fi…

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