Michael L Torrie wrote: > Andrew McNabb wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:47:32PM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: >>> abspath=$(cd $(dirname $fn); pwd)/$(basename $fn) >> Okay. Yours it better than mine. :) > > Wow. Awesome. Bash is just one giant hack, isn't it. > > My solution, thanks to Byron clark is: > > abspath=$( readlink -f $fn ) > > readlink is part of the standard GNU coreutils.
That's clearly the best answer, aside from Jonathan's sound recommendation to write the script in Python instead. :-) Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
