12-18-2009
Getting real path to directory
Hi friends,
Need your help. The question is:
1) We have directory '/SomeDirectory/SubDirectory'
2) And have symlink pointing to it like '/AnotherOneDirectory/symlink'
'/AnotherOneDirectory/symlink' -> '/SomeDirectory/SubDirectory'
3) Need to get real path without symlinks knowing only '/AnotherOneDirectory/symlink'
4) P.S. Using shell commands only. Something like realpath() call for C.
Thanks, kandrewo.
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