Re: New coreutil? realpath - retrieve canonicalized absolute path

[Eric Blake]

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According to Sebastian Rasmussen on 7/18/2005 6:25 PM:
> Hi!
> 
> Below is a patch (against coreutils-cvs) that
> implements a new coreutil of mine, realpath, that
> more or less wraps the libc call realpath(3). This
> is done in order to allow shell scripts or users
> to retrieve an absolute path given a relative
> path.

What's wrong with the already-existing `readlink -f'?

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