How to resolve a symlink's to its non-existing destination?

How to resolve a symlink's to its non-existing destination?

[Marlon Richert]

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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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Re: How to resolve a symlink's to its non-existing destination?

[Roman Perepelitsa]

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.