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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Symbolic links and Bourne shell...
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Date: 7 Sep 90 16:13:10 GMT
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In article <1990Sep7.140159.4832@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> boysko@dsrgsun.CES.CWRU.Edu (Glenn Boysko) writes:
>In Bourne shell, how can you find the path pointed to be a symbolic link?
>However, in Bourne shell, pwd returns the same value as SYMLINK.

That depends on the Bourne shell implementation.  I normally configure
ours to work like that, because it is more in line with what I think
is a sensible user model for how symlinks to directories should be used.
When I want to find the "real" CWD (i.e. one not involving any symlink
components), I use /bin/pwd instead of the shell's built-in "pwd" command.