[colug-432] show path stuff

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Fri Oct 30 13:30:54 EDT 2015


On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Jeff Frontz wrote:

> That's tricky, right?  The parent of a given directory might not actually
> be the same as dirname(1) on the path used to get to the directory (what
> with symbolic links and -- at least at one time on certain filesystems --
> the potential of a directory entry being present in multiple parent
> directories).

I see 'realpath' in coreutils

-- R


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