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From: "Halim, Salman" <salman AT bluestone DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com '" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: resolving symbolic links
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:16:06 -0500 
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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. .
.

also, please tell me if this is not the forum for such questions.

thank you,

salman.

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