On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:59 PM, 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.
I've wished on many occasions that 'ls' had this as an option. 'ls --
fullpath filename' would be a common thing to do if it was available.
It's nice to know about readlink though. Thanks, Byron (and Michael
for asking).
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