Re: basename sucks (OT)

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Philip Rowlands wrote on 02-02-07 18:52:
> 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.

Well I'll be... -- yes!
Who'd have known.  I'd been implementing this as a shell-
script some time ago, and recall that it took more effort
to get it right than I had suspected.

Thank you!

> Cheers,
> Phil

Likewise.

bjd