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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to find directory name at end of symbolic links
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Date: 9 Mar 89 21:55:00 GMT
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In article <304@unet.UUCP> maine@unet.PacBell.COM (Dennis J. W. Maine) groovily writes:
>I am using SunOs 3.5 and want to know how to find out the directory
>name at the end of a series of symbolic links.

You have to use the readlink system call. On csli.stanford.edu I have put a
program readlink (anon ftp from pub/Gandalf) which does what you want.

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Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner@arisia.xerox.com