From: Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Dereferencing a symlink...or that alike...
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:13:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130819041327.GA22326@redoubt.spodhuis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <130817220559.ZM3201@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 2013-08-17 at 22:05 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> I don't know of any external utility that will print *only* the target
> of the symlink. E.g.
readlink(1) is part of GNU coreutils and is part of the base system on
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.
% readlink etcetera
/etc
(On FreeBSD, at least, it's a hardlink to the stat(1) command, which
switches behaviour if argv[0] shows it was invoked as readlink.)
-Phil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 4:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-18 2:40 meino.cramer
2013-08-18 4:30 ` Phil Pennock
2013-08-18 5:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-08-19 4:13 ` Phil Pennock [this message]
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