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From: nwosuck@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Kingsley Nwosu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Symbolic links and Bourne shell...
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Date: 11 Oct 90 16:20:59 GMT
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In article <1990Sep7.140159.4832@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> you write:
>
>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'`"


I don't understand your problem.

In Bourne shell, one can do:

         $ linkpath=`cd $SYMBOLIC;pwd`

I know I can. Why can't you?

Aahhh! Maybe implementation differences!!!!



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