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From: pvo1478@neptune.uucp (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to find directory name at end of symbolic links
Summary: set hardpaths
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Date: 14 Mar 89 01:12:49 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.  ...............

How about:

#!/bin/csh -f
set hardpaths
cd $argv[1]
echo $cwd

Or set hardpaths in your working shell to always see where you really are.


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251