How to dereference Mac OS X alias?

Question

I'm trying to scp a file with it's alias. How can I achieve this?

vartec · Answer 1 · 2011-03-01T15:25:37.483

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Have you tried scp with -E flag?

edited Mar 01 '11 at 15:25

answered Mar 01 '11 at 15:03

vartec

An alias is *not* the same as a symlink, and it will break with this method. – Sven Mar 01 '11 at 15:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '11 at 16:59

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I solved this by making symlinks instead of aliases.

answered Mar 01 '11 at 16:59

Eonil

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 11 '11 at 16:28

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You could use the osascript command to run an AppleScript that dereferences the alias and returns the path to the original.

answered Mar 11 '11 at 16:28

LaC

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