Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
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       realpath - return the canonicalized absolute pathname

Funny thing is, back in the days before pwd was a built-in and when getcwd() actually forked and invoked /bin/pwd, cd'ing to a symlink and then asking for the pwd returned the canonical path. Which I suppose broke lots of stuff that wasn't expecting that either. :-)

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    Remember the good old days, when we
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    being export-restricted?

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