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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ls on a symbolic link Post 302694143 by bakunin on Thursday 30th of August 2012 07:51:32 AM
Old 08-30-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by newbie_01
got no readlink as well Smilie-
"readlink" would be the alias/scriptname you give to his "ls ... | awk ..." line. Either turn this line into a script (filename would be in "$1") /along/your/$PATH/readlink and flag it executable or define an alias:

Code:
alias readlink='ls....'

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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READLINK(1)							   User Commands						       READLINK(1)

NAME
readlink - print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name SYNOPSIS
readlink [OPTION]... FILE DESCRIPTION
Print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name -f, --canonicalize canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively; all but the last component must exist -e, --canonicalize-existing canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively, all components must exist -m, --canonicalize-missing canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively, without requirements on components exis- tence -n, --no-newline do not output the trailing newline -q, --quiet, -s, --silent suppress most error messages -v, --verbose report error messages --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Dmitry V. Levin. REPORTING BUGS
Report readlink bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report readlink translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
readlink(2) The full documentation for readlink is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and readlink programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'readlink invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 READLINK(1)
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