On Friday 24 of July 2009 09:15:56 Jim Meyering wrote: > > Actually I don't know if we have some utility equivalent to > > canonicalize_file_name() function in coreutils now. > > We do. It's called readlink: > > Usage: readlink [OPTION]... FILE > Display value of a symbolic link on standard output.
Thanks! I was looking for utility like this several times but unsuccessful. Perhaps I was confused by the keyword "symbolic link" in the brief utility description. It might be good to also mention the canonicalization ability there as it is common use case. Kamil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
