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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:19:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: Absolute path of a path
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2010/10/28 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>:
> On 2010-10-27 18:54:17 +0200, J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie Roquet wrote:
>> 2010/10/27 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>:
>> > BTW, is there a way to get the canonicalised absolute pathname
>> > with zsh? (i.e. what the "realpath" command gives.)
>>
>> your_path(:A) I guess :)
>
> No. The zsh man path says:
>
> =C2=A0A =C2=A0 =C2=A0As =C2=A0`a', =C2=A0but also resolve use of symbolic=
 links where possible.
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Note that resolution of `..' occurs before =C2=A0res=
olution =C2=A0of =C2=A0sym=E2=80=90
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 bolic =C2=A0links. =C2=A0 This =C2=A0call is equival=
ent to a unless your system
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 has the realpath system call (modern systems do).
>
> but Linux doesn't have a realpath system call.
>
> ypig:~> man 2 realpath
> No manual entry for realpath in section 2
>
> FYI:
>
> ypig:~> realpath symlink/../vlefevre/symlink
> /home/vlefevre
>
> ypig:~> echo symlink/../vlefevre/symlink(:A)
> /home/vlefevre/vlefevre/symlink
>
> where symlink is a symbolic link to ".".

Strange, it works for me.

$ pwd
/udir/jroquet
$ ls -l .screenrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jroquet kmem 37 2009-10-16 14:56 .screenrc ->
/udir/jroquet/Arkonf/screen/.screenrc
$ ls -l .screenrc(:A)
-rw-r--r-- 1 jroquet kmem 1521 2010-02-24 18:44
/udir/jroquet/Arkonf/screen/.screenrc
$ echo .screenrc(:A)
/udir/jroquet/Arkonf/screen/.screenrc

I'm running Ubuntu Linux 10.04, zsh 4.3.10

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