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Make cd follow symbolic links

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – I have my code mounted as an sshfs in my home directory, but the hierarchy is difficult to remember, so I created a symlink in my home directory leading to that directory. Is there a way so that when I cd to that symbolic link, instead of cding to the symbolic link, it will actually cd to that directory? If the question was unclear, here is an example of what I am looking for: foo@foo:~$ ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 foo foo 5 2012-11-14 08:20 foo -> bar/bar foo@foo:~$ cd foo foo@foo:~/bar/bar/$ (HowTos)

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