Re: How to follow symbolic link(s) to the actual filename?

moma <moma@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> $ ls -l link2 link1 afile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 moma moma 0 2006-01-31 10:58 afile
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 moma moma 5 2006-01-31 10:58 link1 -> afile
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 moma moma 5 2006-01-31 10:58 link2 -> link1

> If my bash script got "link2", how to find the actual filename (afile)?

readlink -f link2

Chris
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