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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: symlink chain.
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 17:03:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150102170307.7d2e644a@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <549E3A7B.9010209@eastlink.ca>

On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:50:03 -0800
Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> I just noticed that 'whence -s' very quietly 'finishes' a chain of 
> links, and shows you the final target.  'ls' OTOH only ever shows you 
> the first link in a chain. It gets me wanting some way of showing an 
> entire chain of links where that applies.  Can it be done?

showlinkchain () {
  zmodload -F zsh/stat b:zstat
  local args
  while [[ -h $1 ]]
  do
    zstat -A args +link $1
    if [[ -n $args[1] ]]
    then
      print -r - $args[1]
      set -- $args[1]
    else
      break
    fi
  done
}


pws


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-02 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-27  4:50 Ray Andrews
2014-12-27 23:38 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 17:03 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2015-01-02 18:42   ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 20:27     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-02 21:19       ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 21:24     ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-02 21:36       ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 21:53       ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 22:21         ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-02 23:42           ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03  1:08             ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03  5:03               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03  5:53                 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03  7:17                   ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03 17:14                     ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 20:02                       ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03 21:13                         ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 21:42                           ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-03 22:42                             ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04  0:41                               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04  3:45                                 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04  0:40                           ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04  3:35                             ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04  8:31                               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04 20:49                                 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-05  1:34                                   ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-05  2:28                                     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-05  4:24                                       ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 22:22         ` Bart Schaefer

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