Extracting the linked to file name

[Peter Barker]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:

> I have one more thing to resolve.  I need to extract the name of the
> file that a symbolic link points to.  Can anyone suggest a better way
> than

How about the "--dereference" option to ls"?

filename=`ls -L symlink.name`

> Rasjid.

Yours,
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