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Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!



On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:56:18PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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
> 
wicked, thanks! 
matt



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