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Symbolic links in UNIX
Hi,

I have a file with more than 1 layers of soft links for it. For ex.
Code:
ls -la .profile 
.profile@ -> /home/act/.profile_abc
ls -la 
/home/act/.profile_abc@ -> .profile_final

I want to get the name of the last file (i.e. .profile_final) when I refer to .profile using shell script. I could not find any option available to get this.

Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by vbe; 10-06-2010 at 04:50 AM.. Reason: code tags
 
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