Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:41:48AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> I can collapse these two steps now with:
>
> matt@matts-mac:~$ ll $(which emacs)
>
> ... but is there a way to trace the whole chain of symbolic links all the way
> to
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4254776 2002-04-09 18:46
> /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.6-gnome-nomule
>
> following the links manually takes about 5 steps! Is there a command
> that will trace links recursively until it ends up at a real file?
readlink -f
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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