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From: evans@testmax.zk3.dec.com (Marc Evans)
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Subject: Re: following symbolic links
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Date: 19 Mar 90 21:06:58 GMT
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>Lately I find myself doing things like 
>%ls -ld /usr/prog
>
>and after finding that this is linked to /n/node1/bin, I'd do
>
>%ls -ld /n/node1/bin

Many *ix systems provide a -L option to the ls command, which traces the link
all of the way down (assuming that it can) to the actual file. Try using:

	% ls -ldL /usr/prog

- Marc
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