On 24/06/10 22:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Neal Murphy wrote: >> Both of the following commands display the symlink's target: >> ln -s /bin/sh Won't that just make a symbolic link to /bin/sh in the current directory? >> readlink /bin/sh > > Or more conventionally: > > $ ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 16 2009 /bin/sh -> bash >
Another tool to find out information about a file is stat, part of coreutils. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
