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Subject: symlink destination

From: Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>

Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:51:55 +0900

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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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