following symbolic links

[Marc Evans]

>Lately I find myself doing things like 
>%ls -ld /usr/prog
>
>and after finding that this is linked to /n/node1/bin, I'd do
>
>%ls -ld /n/node1/bin

Many *ix systems provide a -L option to the ls command, which traces the link
all of the way down (assuming that it can) to the actual file. Try using:

	% ls -ldL /usr/prog

- Marc
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