[SATLUG] symlink <-> absolute path

[Robert Pena]

I don't think that there is a command to do that because the inodes are the
same.

On 6/23/06, Borries Demeler <demeler at biochem.uthscsa.edu> wrote:
>
> Is there a unix command that will give me the absolute path
> for a symlinked directory?
>
> Example:
>
> ln -si /dir1/dir2 /tmp/.
>
> pwd
>
> /tmp/dir2
>
>
> I want to know the absolute path - so I need a command that returns:
>
> /dir1/dir2
>
> Thanks, -Borries
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