12-04-2007
(a) does not work with symbolic links,
(b) or with a partial relative path for one, and full path for other.
9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. HP-UX
Hello,
I'm trying to test if a directory specified in a script parameter is available or not.
I wrote a little code to do so, but there's a problem because I receive an error message.
My code:
#Verify command parameter
if
then
echo 'Incorrect command parameter'
echo... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: santuna
3 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all
plz let me how to test output of "tail -1 filelist.lst" is file or directory.
regards
-Bali Reddy (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: balireddy_77
1 Replies
3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I am trying to test if there are files in a directory and if theres i want to get a list. Any ideas? Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: RSAM2007
1 Replies
4. Solaris
i am using solaris 5.10. i can create two different files "test" and ".test" in the same directory. now suppose i want to change the attribute of the hidden file .test to visible is it possible???
since "." is just an attribute to mark a file hidden why is unix allows creation of "file" and... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: vikashtulsiyan
14 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm writing a shell script that will create a folder if it does not exist yet. Here's the script: (this if statement is inside a while loop)
folderName="Pics"
if ! test -d folderName
then
mkdir $folderName
fi
However, after the folder Pics has been created, every time the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: trivektor
3 Replies
6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
rm: Unable to remove directory /mnt/users/test/logs/: File exists
ls -latr
total 191208
drwxrwxrwx 6 test echo 4096 Jul 3 22:36 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 test echo 97692804 Jul 3 22:36 .nfsDFA4
drwxrwxr-x 2 test echo 4096 Jul 3 23:00 .
M not able to delete... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: solitare123
4 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm almost pulling out my hair trying to figure out what's wrong with this... there's no reason I can see that it shouldn't be working. It seems that the code acts as though the conditional statement is true no matter what - I've even tried removing the negation operator, but it always goes into... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: wildbluefaerie
5 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a way for a bash script to test if it can cd into a directory without actually attempting to cd into it?
I am looking for something along the lines of:
if ;then
#code to execute
fi
except in this case I don't want to test if the directory exists; what I want is to test... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: dexdex200
8 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
My input is as below :
/splunk/scrubbed/rebate/IFIND.REBTE.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/rebate/IFIND.REBTE.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/loyal/IFIND.HELLO.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/triumph/ifind.triumph.txt
From the above input I want to extract the file names only .
Basically I want to... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: IshuGupta
5 Replies
LEARN ABOUT MINIX
resolvepath
resolvepath(2) System Calls resolvepath(2)
NAME
resolvepath - resolve all symbolic links of a path name
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int resolvepath(const char *path, char *buf, size_t bufsiz);
DESCRIPTION
The resolvepath() function fully resolves all symbolic links in the path name path into a resulting path name free of symbolic links and
places the resulting path name in the buffer buf which has size bufsiz. The resulting path name names the same file or directory as the
original path name. All ``.'' components are eliminated and every non-leading ``..'' component is eliminated together with its preceding
directory component. If leading ``..'' components reach to the root directory, they are replaced by ``/''. If the number of bytes in the
resulting path name is less than bufsiz, the contents of the remainder of buf are unspecified.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, resolvepath() returns the count of bytes placed in the buffer. Otherwise, it returns -1, leaves the buffer
unchanged, and sets errno to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The resolvepath() function will fail if:
EACCES Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix of path or for a path prefix component resulting
from the resolution of a symbolic link.
EFAULT The path or buf argument points to an illegal address.
EIO An I/O error occurred while reading from the file system.
ENOENT The path argument is an empty string or a component of path or a path name component produced by resolving a sym-
bolic link does not name an existing file.
ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving path.
ENAMETOOLONG The length of path exceeds PATH_MAX, or a path name component is longer than NAME_MAX. Path name resolution of a
symbolic link produced an intermediate result whose length exceeds PATH_MAX or a component whose length exceeds
NAME_MAX.
ENOTDIR A component of the path prefix of path or of a path prefix component resulting from the resolution of a symbolic
link is not a directory.
USAGE
No more than PATH_MAX bytes will be placed in the buffer. Applications should not assume that the returned contents of the buffer are null-
terminated.
SEE ALSO
readlink(2), realpath(3C)
SunOS 5.10 12 May 1997 resolvepath(2)