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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Symbolic links and Bourne shell...
Message-ID: <15062@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 90 06:09:30 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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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

Try:

linkpath=`cd $SYMLINK; /bin/pwd`

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