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From: | Bauke Jan Douma |
Subject: | Re: basename sucks (OT) |
Date: | Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:02:10 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) |
Philip Rowlands wrote on 02-02-07 18:52:
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:Reminds me of something. This is largely off-topic, but does anyone know of a utility FOO that takes a path or file as input an outputs a full, absolute, rooted path?readlink -f sounds close to what you want.
Well I'll be... -- yes! Who'd have known. I'd been implementing this as a shell- script some time ago, and recall that it took more effort to get it right than I had suspected. Thank you!
Cheers, Phil
Likewise. bjd
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