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From: arnold@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to find directory name at end of symbolic links
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Date: 10 Mar 89 18:07:36 GMT
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In article <304@unet.UUCP> maine@unet.PacBell.COM (Dennis J. W. Maine) 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.

Easy enough:

	$ (cd /dir1/a ; /bin/pwd)
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