I agree that the expanded install script w(use of set -vx) worked with the readlink command.
But somehow things got fuzzy and I hate to reinstall the running software monitoring tool to reenact the crime since I hate for you and me to spend more time on this. I made a closing entry in the bug about the $0 agrument. THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST ________________________________ From: Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> To: jpv4...@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 5:53 PM Subject: [Bug 999207] Re: what is the operative readlink command? When running the ./install script it seems to me that readlink works correctly, do you agree? Running readlink at the command line and passing it $0 might result in the errors you are seeing depending on the value of $0. Please try printf '<%s>\n' "$0" readlink -f -- "$0" The pasting of your terminal session above is a bit corrupted; readlink's errors appear on the same line as your command. It helps us if we see precisely what you entered and saw in response. So for the above, I see $ printf '<%s>\n' "$0" </bin/bash> $ readlink -f -- "$0" /bin/bash $ -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999207 Title: what is the operative readlink command? Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I stumlbed accross a problem where a script kept failing when running the readlink command. It did not like the use of the -f flag which is supported in the man page. I got past the problem using /usr/lib/klibc/bin/readlink found through a search of the system. More details can be found in the forum using the tag "readlink". What is going on with the readlink command? Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) 2.6.38-8-generic Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/999207/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999207 Title: what is the operative readlink command? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/999207/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
