Extracting the linked to file name

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

Everyone is trying far too hard!

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:46:48AM +1100, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> I have almost finished my Vet Autodownloader script.
> 
> 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
> 
> filename=`ll symlink.name | sed s/"->"/\|/ | cut -f 2 -d\|`

How about:

filename=`readlink symlink.name`

HTH,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org>
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