Re: symlink destination

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

a bit of an overkill, but you could use

find <the file you want> -printf "%l"

or if you want to find files which are symbolic links 

find <where you want to look> -type l -printf "%l"

hope they are of some use

cheers

tony





Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> 
> A shell programming question:
> 
> Is there a way to find out the destination of a symbolic link (the
> file it links to) from a sh script? Parsing the output of `ls -l' is a
> possibility but it doesn't feel right.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Viktor
> 
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