Re: basename sucks (OT)

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:

> Reminds me of something.  This is largely off-topic, but does anyone 
> know of a utility FOO that takes a path or file as input an outputs a 
> full, absolute, rooted path?

readlink -f sounds close to what you want.


Cheers,
Phil