Symbolic links and Bourne shell...

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Sep7.140159.4832 at usenet.ins.cwru.edu> boysko at dsrgsun.CES.CWRU.Edu (Glenn Boysko) writes:
>
>In C shell, you can type:
>	% set linkpath = "`cd $SYMLINK; pwd`"
>However, in Bourne shell, pwd returns the same value as SYMLINK.  Does anyone
>know how to get this info in a Bourne shell without typing:

Have you tried:

 	% linkpath="`cd $SYMLINK; /bin/pwd'`"

The moral of the story is that pwd is a built-in (in many borne shells) that
just echos what the shell thinks is the current directory.

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