From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: How to resolve a symlink's to its non-existing destination?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 20:17:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMqUUF9RgeaGo6obB96tDY9OqsiP6Q1TdVWT7n-8dvmDzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHLkEDtydDNd+_riwO0N8T1v7a7GP-4jDefm8y24oPRGDC3i5A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 8:07 PM Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How can I consistently resolve a symlink's destination, regardless of whether it exists?
You can read the target of a link with zstat:
% zstat +link -LA link -- bar && typeset -p link
typeset -a link=( foo )
You might have to do this recursively.
Roman.
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2023-04-29 18:06 Marlon Richert
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