Extracting the linked to file name

[Peter Barker]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> Everyone is trying far too hard!
> How about:
> 
> filename=`readlink symlink.name`

Does not exist under redhat-7.1 (what I run).

Appears to exist under potato.

Yours,
-- 
Peter Barker                          |   N    _--_|\ /---- Barham, Vic 
Programmer,Sysadmin,Geek              | W + E /     /\                
pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au         |   S   \_,--?_*<-- Canberra      
You need a bigger hammer.             |             v    [35S, 149E]   
qq%I've never heard of it or used it, apart from finding it in the Camel
 book and saying "Oh god".% -- Onceler