On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 08:11:20AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The real one looks like this: > unicorn:~$ help realpath
> realpath: realpath [-csv] pathname [pathname...] > Display pathname in canonical form. > > Display the canonicalized version of each PATHNAME argument, resolving > symbolic links. The -c option checks whether or not each resolved name > exists. The -s option produces no output; the exit status determines the > validity of each PATHNAME. The -v option produces verbose output. The > exit status is 0 if each PATHNAME was resolved; non-zero otherwise. > > Since -v is already taken, the proposed modification used -a instead, > > I have no idea why the proposal tries to write the result into an > array variable, though. That makes no sense to me. Because `realpath` accept more than one *pathname*. So if you pass many path entries to realpath as arguments, all answer could be stored into an array. realpath /bin/sh /usr/bin/X /bin/dash /usr/bin/Xorg -- Félix Hauri - <fe...@f-hauri.ch> - http://www.f-hauri.ch
