I feel stupid -- determine the full path to a file

[Michael L Torrie]

Derek Carter wrote:

> 
> Try dirname and basename

nope.  Doesn't work.

$ dirname `pwd`/../foo/baz
/my/current/path/../foo/baz

I need it to return
/my/current/foo/baz


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Michael Torrie
Assistant CSR, System Administrator
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Brigham Young University
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