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From: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: How to resolve a symlink's to its non-existing destination?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 21:06:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHLkEDtydDNd+_riwO0N8T1v7a7GP-4jDefm8y24oPRGDC3i5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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When I use :a, :A or :P on a symlink whose destination does not exist, I do
not get the output I'm expecting:

% touch foo
% ln -s foo bar
% print bar(:P)
/private/var/folders/hk/lcsr76092ygbtc8y1fryg7jh0000gn/T/tmp.ir6Iuz7K/foo
% rm foo
% print bar(:P)
/private/var/folders/hk/lcsr76092ygbtc8y1fryg7jh0000gn/T/tmp.ir6Iuz7K/bar
%

How can I consistently resolve a symlink's destination, regardless of
whether it exists?

I know I can use readlink for this, but is there any way to do this with
Zsh?

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             reply	other threads:[~2023-04-29 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-29 18:06 Marlon Richert [this message]
2023-04-29 18:17 ` Roman Perepelitsa

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