How do I follow a dynamic file link to its home directory?

Question

>ls -alt
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   67 Aug  3 10:49 myFile.txt -> /some/where/else/myFile.txt

i want to cd to

/some/where/else/

by typing something like

follow myFile.txt

does Unix have something like that?

Answer 1

You could define a function:

follow () { cd $(dirname $(readlink -e "$1")); }