Symbolic links and Bourne shell...

[Jim Burns]

> In article <1990Sep7.140159.4832 at usenet.ins.cwru.edu> you write:

>>In Bourne shell, how can you find the path pointed to be a symbolic link?

>>In C shell, you can type:

>>	% set linkpath = "`cd $SYMLINK; pwd`"

>>However, in Bourne shell, pwd returns the same value as SYMLINK.  Does anyone

Try:

linkpath=`cd $SYMLINK; /bin/pwd`

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