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$ mkdir -p a/b/c
$ ln -s a/b/c link
$ ls -laF | grep link
lrwxr-xr-x 1 isaacs staff 5 Jun 9 09:23 link@ -> a/b/c
drwxr-xr-x 3 isaacs staff 102 Jun 8 23:48 symlink-test/
$ (cd link/..; pwd -P)
/Users/isaacs/dev/js/node-master
$ node -pe 'require("fs").realpathSync("link/..")'
/Users/isaacs/dev/js/node-master
$ cd link
$ cd ..
$ pwd -P
/Users/isaacs/dev/js/node-master
$ pwd
/Users/isaacs/dev/js/node-master
$ ls -laF link/..
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 isaacs staff 102 Jun 9 09:23 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 isaacs staff 102 Jun 9 09:23 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 isaacs staff 102 Jun 9 09:24 c/
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