Investigate the options to "test" (the binary or the BASH built-in) that detect symbolic links: -h or -L (they are synonymous) and the command "readlink" (as in "man readlink").
Again, this is stock Unix / Linux stuff.
Randall Schulz
At 18:23 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote:
Recently, I was trying to do "strace Xemacs . . ."
First I got a "No such file" error, so I changed to do "strace `which xemacs` " -- still a failure.
which xemacs returns "/usr/local/bin/xemacs.exe.lnk"; that is, my normal handle to launch xemacs is a symlink to the executable whose name or location varies with the version-number.
Given that its purpose is to locate what executable file one will use in a particular environment, should not 'which' resolve the symlink and return its target?
What would happen on *nix?
-- David A. Cobb
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