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Re: `readlink -f` and trailing slash
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Eric Blake |
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Re: `readlink -f` and trailing slash |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:57:41 -0700 |
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On 08/28/2012 04:23 PM, Todd Partridge wrote:
Thanks for the report. However,
> Would it be possible to append a
> trailing slash to `readlink -f` for those that specify that when then
> type it? e.g. `readlink -f libtool/` would return
> `/usr/share/libtool/` rather than `/usr/share/libtool`.
I'm afraid this is not possible. 'readlink -f' mirrors the behavior of
the realpath(3) function (and its counterpart canonicalize_file_name()
wrapper in glibc), and POSIX requires realpath() to strip trailing slashes.
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