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From: white@white.cs.unc.edu (Brian T. White)
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Subject: Re: How to find directory name at end of symbolic links
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Date: 9 Mar 89 22:52:22 GMT
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> 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.  
>
> Any ideas?

Try this:

#! /bin/csh -f

foreach file ($argv[1-])
        echo ""
        if (! -e $file) then
                echo $file does not exist
                continue
        endif
        echo "$file"
        set islink
        while ($?islink)
                set listing=`ls -ld $file`
                echo $listing | grep -s ^lrwx
                if ($status) then
                        unset islink
                else
                        set file=`echo $listing | awk '{print $NF}'`
                        echo " -> $file"
                endif
        end
end
echo ""