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How get full path to target of link
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Mar 15, 202614750 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
If I have a symbolic link created with . How can I in a script that sees only the link get ? What I want to achieve in the script is before I do .
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/var/opt/foo
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is now the target of the link, exactly as it was stored in the filesystem. Symlinks can be relative, though, so this would be better for normal usage: Note that this uses from GNU Coreutils, which may not exist in BSD and other systems. Edit: works …
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