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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Dereferencing a symlink...or that alike...
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:34:55 +0200
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meino.cramer@gmx.de writes:

> suppose I have the following symlink in my $HOME
>
>     etcetera -> /etc
>
> . Is there a way to get back "/etc" only (not the contents
> of /etc/. nor "etcetera") when doing a 'ls' or such?

$ readlink etcetera
/etc

Bye,
Tassilo