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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there a standard way to do "foo"
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Date: 14 Sep 90 09:16:07 GMT
References: <22000012@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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in article <22000012@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu says:
> My current "foo" is "how do resolve a pathname that contains one or more
> symbolic links into a pathname that has none (absolute path)?".  But I hate
> having to ask each question every time.

t=`cd /usr/include;/bin/pwd`;echo $t

yields "/usr/.include" on my system. /bin/pwd avoids using the builtin.

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