Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 9/12/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would have expected ``readlink /usr/bin/vi'' to report > > /usr/bin/vim.basic. > > From $ man readlink > - - - - - > DESCRIPTION > Display value of a symbolic link on standard output. > > -f, --canonicalize > canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of > the given path recursively > - - - - -
Aw, man! I read that, then completely ignored it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% realpath /usr/bin/vi > > /usr/bin/vim.basic > > Has somebody made a realpath(1) for Debian which calls realpath(3) ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% apt-cache show realpath Package: realpath --snip-- Description: Return the canonicalized absolute pathname The package contains a small utility realpath, which converts each pathname argument to an absolute pathname, which has no components that are symbolic links or the special . or .. directory entries. . This utility provides mostly the same functionality as `/bin/readlink -f' in the coreutils package. Next time, I really should read the WHOLE discription instead of just the summary when installing a package. Looks like readlink -f it is. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
