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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Shell command to print full path to current home directory Post 303044736 by LMHmedchem on Monday 2nd of March 2020 11:17:40 PM
Old 03-03-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
Do the commands realpath or readlink (with or without -f) help here at all?

Or perhaps the Cwd module from perl:
Code:
perl -MCwd -e 'print Cwd::realpath($ARGV[0])' /home/user_name

I have tried the following where dpi.txt is a file in /home/user_name
Code:
$ pwd
/home/user_name

realpath dpi.txt
realpath -L dpi.txt
realpath -P dpi.txt

All of these result in /home/user_name/dpi.txt

The perl code output looked a bit odd be seemed to print the same thing. The readlink command gave the same results a realpath.

It looks like findmnt may give me what I need. Skipping allot of stuff,
Code:
├─/mnt/linux_data                     /dev/sdb3   ext4      rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered
├─/home                               /dev/sdb3[/01_centos]

This seems to indicate that /home is located on /dev/sdb3/01_centos , which is /mnt/linux_data/01_centos which is expected.

LMHmedchem

Last edited by LMHmedchem; 03-03-2020 at 12:28 AM..
 

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READLINK(1)							   User Commands						       READLINK(1)

NAME
readlink - print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names 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 delimiter -q, --quiet, -s, --silent suppress most error messages -v, --verbose report error messages -z, --zero separate output with NUL rather than newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report readlink translation bugs to <http://translationpro- ject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by Dmitry V. Levin. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 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), realpath(1), realpath(3) 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 8.22 June 2014 READLINK(1)
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