How to find directory name at end of symbolic links
Paul O'Neill
pvo1478 at neptune.uucp
Tue Mar 14 11:12:49 AEST 1989
In article <304 at unet.UUCP> maine at unet.PacBell.COM (Dennis J. W. Maine) writes:
>I am using SunOs 3.5 and want to know how to find out the directory
>name at the end of a series of symbolic links. ...............
How about:
#!/bin/csh -f
set hardpaths
cd $argv[1]
echo $cwd
Or set hardpaths in your working shell to always see where you really are.
Paul O'Neill pvo at oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR 97331 503-754-3251
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