Follow a symlink

[PedroDSFerreira]

I would like to have a keybinding to follow a symlink on a hovered file/directory.

I have already tried:

{ on = [ "g", "l" ], run = '''shell "cd $(readlink '@0')" --confirm''', desc = "Go to the symlink original directory" },

and

{ on = [ "g", "l" ], run = "cd $(readlink '@0')", desc = "Go to the symlink original directory" },

But nothing works.

Am I doing something wrong? Thanks!

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UPDATE:
I have changed the approach and tried creating a plugin. Here is the init.lua:

return {
    entry = function()
        local h = cx.active.current.hovered
        local original_url = h.link_to
        if h and original_url then
            ya.manager_emit("reveal", { path = original_url })
        end
    end,
}

This cds into the symlink's parent directory, not the original path. Why is the original path not being passed into the pathargument?

[lkschu]

Change the plugin to this, then it works:

return {
   entry = function()
      local h = cx.active.current.hovered
      local original_url = h.link_to
      if h and original_url then
         ya.manager_emit("cd", { original_url })
      end
   end,
}