Subject: RE: resolving symbolic links
From: "Halim, Salman" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Donald E. Hammond'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked] '" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:32:14 -0500

yes; ls -L just displays it as /tmp/ instead of /tmp@ :) not really
resolving it.

the find works for /tmp, but not for /tmp/<somefile> -- basically, %l
returns the empty string if the item in question isn't a symbolic link in
and of itself.  so /windows returns nothing.  what i'm looking for is
something that will resolve all symbolic links in a path name, leaving the
non-symbolic bits untouched.

thanks again :)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald E. Hammond [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:11 AM
> To: Halim, Salman
> Cc: [email-masked] '
> Subject: Re: resolving symbolic links
> 
> 
> Salman -
> 
> ls -L should work, I think, but doesn't seem to in my 1.0 CD
> installation.  Don't know if it's a bug, or misunderstanding on my
> part.  Try: 'find /tmp -printf %l'  (or -printf "%l\n"), 
> which seems to
> work.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
>  - Don
> 
> 
> 
> Halim, Salman wrote:
> > 
> > hi,
> > 
> > what's a good way to find out (programmatically; either 
> through a command or
> > a piped series of commands or a function), in bash (if 
> relevant), the actual
> > path pointed to by a symbolic link.  for example, i have 
> /tmp pointing to
> > c:\temp -- how can i get 'c:\temp' as output given '/tmp' 
> as input?  i
> > thought of ls -al /tmp | cut -d'>' -f 2- but that seems a 
> bit of a kludge. .
> > .
> >
> 
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