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Re: please crossreferen basename and dirname manpage and add realpath re
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: please crossreferen basename and dirname manpage and add realpath ref |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:17:16 +0100 |
Tomas Pospisek <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since this is the 3rd time I was looking for tools that would return
> me parts of and manipulate a path, and each time I would not remember
> the exact names of the tools and I'd search for a while I'm submitting a
> patch to crossreference the ones that I thought of. Hope you can include
> them. Thanks!
Thank you. I've applied that, but replaced realpath(1) (which isn't
available everywhere) with readlink(1) which is part of coreutils;
since readlink --canonicalize is very similar to realpath.