Re: Normalizing pathnames

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Suresh Krishnan wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>   Thanks for the quick response. readlink -f does almost everything I 
> want. The only thing it does not do is to verify whether the path is valid. 
> I can add this on very easily in my script.

That got me thinking. If the path doesn't exist then
I think readlink -f should just return the canonicalized
path (the output from realpath). That would be more useful
that just stopping at the first invalid path component?

I.E. I think the output from the following should be
/usr/1/2/3 rather than /user/1

readlink -f /usr/share/../1/2/3

Pádraig.