Andreas Vox wrote: > Alfredo Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> what about [ `dirname "$1"` -ef `dirname "$2"` ] ? >> >> No idea about portability and such. > > Works on MacOSX (bash).
forgot to mention, bash too ;-) > Apparently the default on MacOSX is "pwd -L" rather than "pwd -P" as > stated in the manpage, so the original script would not work on Mac. Angus, note also that this solution identifies symlinked directories, while yours doesn't. (I suppose that you want them identified?) Alfredo