Extracting the linked to file name

[Anthony Wesley]

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 
> 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`


$ filename=`readlink symlink.name`
bash: readlink: command not found

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