Nemo's bash challenge for the day
andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au
andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au
Fri Mar 29 15:26:15 EST 2002
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Michael Still wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, David Price wrote:
[...]
> > I have a /bin/readlink which does some of what you want. It looks
> > like it's in package "debianutils", so I'm not sure if it's available
> > on the majority of systems. Also, it doesn't do exactly the same,
> > since it recursively follows symlinks - but I would guess that would
> > usually be what is wanted.
>
> My redhat 6.1 sparc box lacks it, my redhat 7.1 intel box does have it.
[The scene: A redhat 7.2 box somewhere far, far away]
[onceler at lerkim onceler]$ rpm -qf `which readlink`
tetex-1.0.7-38.2
Go figure.
Andrew
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