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From: | Bob Proulx |
Subject: | Re: equivalent of Linux readlink -f in pure bash? |
Date: | Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:49:54 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Jon Seymour wrote: > Has anyone ever come across an equivalent to Linux's readlink -f that > is implemented purely in bash? > > (I need readlink's function on AIX where it doesn't seem to be available). Try this: ls -l /path/to/some/link | awk '{print$NF}' Sure it doesn't handle whitespace in filenames but what classic AIX Unix symlink would have whitespace in it? :-) Bob
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