Extracting the linked to file name

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:22:52PM +1100, Anthony Wesley wrote:
> $ filename=`readlink symlink.name`
> bash: readlink: command not found

Wierd.

# readlink 
usage: readlink [-n] [-f] symlink
# dpkg -S `which readlink`
tetex-bin: /usr/bin/readlink

Huh? Seems like an odd place for a program like that. Look like it's not
standard though...

Oh, well. You can always use perl...
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