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Re: Patch: use GNU readlink --canonicalize for file-truename when avail
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Julian Scheid |
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Re: Patch: use GNU readlink --canonicalize for file-truename when available |
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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:51:22 +1200 |
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Michael Albinus<address@hidden> wrote:
> What about this:
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> $ perl -e 'use Cwd "realpath"; (-e "/does/not/exist") ? print
> realpath("/does/not/exist") : print "/does/not/exist"; print "\n"'
> /does/not/exist
That's not enough:
$ mkdir /tmp/real
$ ln -s /tmp/real /tmp/fake
(file-truename "/tmp/fake/foo/bar")
"/tmp/real/foo/bar"
> $ readlink --canonicalize-missing /does/not/exist
> /does/not/exist
Good point, I forgot about that. It seems to work:
$ readlink -m /tmp/fake/foo/bar
/tmp/real/foo/bar