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From: boysko@dsrgsun.CES.CWRU.Edu (Glenn Boysko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Symbolic links and Bourne shell...
Summary: How to see what a link points to?
Keywords: pwd, ls, ln -s
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Date: 7 Sep 90 14:01:59 GMT
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In Bourne shell, how can you find the path pointed to be a symbolic link?

In C shell, you can type:

	% set linkpath = "`cd $SYMLINK; pwd`"

However, in Bourne shell, pwd returns the same value as SYMLINK.  Does anyone
know how to get this info in a Bourne shell without typing:

	% linkpath="`csh -c 'cd $SYMLINK; pwd'`"


Thanks,
Glenn

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