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

[Mark Higbee]

You can try using Perl here is a module I found on cpan

Path::Class
http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/Path-Class-0.16/lib/Path/Class.pm

Or there is

File::Spec



Michael L Torrie wrote:
> Nicholas Leippe wrote:
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>> realpath ../bar
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> realpath doesn't appear to be a part of any stanard GNU coreutils I
> have.  Where does one obtain it?
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