On 26/10/2011 20:38, Rich Burridge wrote:
Or less drastically, change the script to use a one-liner from one of those languages.% perl -e 'print readlink($ARGV[0]),"\n"' /bin ./usr/bin
If you are sure it's a directory this will work: $ dir=/bin $ realdir=$(cd $dir && pwd -P) $ echo $realdir -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ userland-discuss mailing list userland-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/userland-discuss