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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