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Re: Deciphering links
From: |
Dave Rutherford |
Subject: |
Re: Deciphering links |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:27:09 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, V. Mark Lehky wrote:
> I have posted this previously on gnu.utils.help, but they weren't any -
> help that is.
>
> If I have a link, such as a -> b, how can find out the "b" part from a
> script? Right now I am using `ls -o $item | awk '{print $10}'`. There
> must be a more graceful way to do this.
$ man readlink
If your system doesn't have readlink(1), get it and build it
or write your own using readlink(2).
Dave
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