On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>
>> You're still seeing only the symlinks. At some point, you'll hit real
>> files. What does
>> ls -l /bin/*awk*
>> show?
>
>   Finally reached bottom:
>
> $ ls -l /bin/*awk*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Mar  9  2014 /bin/awk -> gawk*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     10 Mar  9  2014 /bin/gawk -> gawk-4.1.0*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 580036 Jul 30  2013 /bin/gawk-4.1.0*
>
>   Could have been simpler, no?

The realpath utility is good for that:

[heinlein@hub ~]$ realpath /bin/sh
/usr/bin/bash

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Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/
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