Re: Normalizing pathnames

[Suresh Krishnan]

Hi Paul,
  Thanks for the quick response. readlink -f does almost everything I 
want. The only thing it does not do is to verify whether the path is valid. 
I can add this on very easily in my script.

Thanks
Suresh

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 address@hidden wrote:

>Suresh Krishnan <address@hidden> wrote:
>>   I needed a command to normalize a pathname and I did not find any.
>
>Does "readlink -f" do what you want?
>
>
>paul
>