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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:45:22 -0800
From: "David O'Riva" <oriva AT agames DOT com>
Organization: Atari Games, Inc.
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To: "Halim, Salman" <salman AT bluestone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: resolving symbolic links
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"Halim, Salman" wrote:
>
> 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. .
>

Specifically for cygwin, you can use "cygpath -w /tmp".  Very handy for
using ancient editors ( function q { \q `cygpath -w $*` ; } )

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