Questions tagged [readlink]
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readlink command misbehave after issueing pushd command in bash scripts
I came across one complex problem I tried to explain it with simple example as below
In my system I have
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/temp$ pwd
/home/ubuntu/temp
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/temp$ ls
temp1 test.sh
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/temp$
In temp.sh I have
#!/bin/bash
echo…
Jeegar Patel
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strange behaviour with readlink under cmake
I'm trying to use readlink -f to get the absolute path to a shared library following all symlinks.
>readlink -f /opt/gcc4.9.3/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
/opt/gcc4.9.3/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.20
but when I do this in cmake it doesn't expand the full…
Bruce Adams
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Absolute path to symbolic link
Is there possibility of retrieving absolute path of symbolic file in bash? I cannot use realpath() and readlink() gives path of target. But i need absolute path of that symlink.
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how to filter a command subsitution from the resulting value of a readlink for symlink?
This may be poorly titled as I'm not fully sure what the process is called.
Basically I want to get only the last part of a symlink path, and I'm trying to use the same method I use with PWD.
For example:
if I do
PWD
it prints
/opt/ct/mydir
if I…
Dss
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Why does not the readlink show the full path?
I'm making a shell script to search for files with a specific name and show their full path and size.
For example:
/home/miglui/Desktop/SO/teste/1/teste.txt: 14 bytes
The code of the segment that I'm having trouble is the next:
for i in `find $1…
Miguel
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Readlink - How to crop full path?
I use readlink to find a file's full path:
cek=$(readlink -f "$1")
mkdir -p "$ydk$cek"
mv "$1" "$ydk/$cek/$ydkfile"
But readlink -f "$1" gives me the full path. How can I crop the full path?
For example:
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onur
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Resolving path with bash
On I am on MacOS, but looking for a cross-platform solution that will also work on *nix. Simple question, how can I resolve this path with bash a script?
/Users/Olegzandr/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.0/bin/../lib/node_modules/suman/cli/cli.sh
This path…
Alexander Mills
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