Philip Rowlands wrote on 02-02-07 18:52:
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
Reminds me of something. This is largely off-topic, but does anyone
know of a utility FOO that takes a path or file as input an outputs a
full, absolute, rooted path?
readlink -f sounds close to what you want.
Well I'll be... -- yes!
Who'd have known. I'd been implementing this as a shell-
script some time ago, and recall that it took more effort
to get it right than I had suspected.
Thank you!
Cheers,
Phil
Likewise.
bjd
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