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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Symbolic links and Bourne shell...
Keywords: pwd, ls, ln -s
Message-ID: <1990Sep08.014846.8194@virtech.uucp>
Date: 8 Sep 90 01:48:46 GMT
References: <19417@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Sep7.140159.4832@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <1990Sep7.140159.4832@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> boysko@dsrgsun.CES.CWRU.Edu (Glenn Boysko) writes:
>
>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:

Have you tried:

 	% linkpath="`cd $SYMLINK; /bin/pwd'`"

The moral of the story is that pwd is a built-in (in many borne shells) that
just echos what the shell thinks is the current directory.

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