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

[Andrew McNabb]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:49:27AM -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> 
> then I need foo to be able to get a path that's the real, reduced path,
> without any dots in it.  In other words, `pwd`/../bar is not going to
> work.

This is simple and dumb but seems pretty resilient.

########################################################################
#!/bin/bash
# change `pwd` to `pwd -P` to remove symbolic links

pushd `dirname "$1"` >&-
absolute="`pwd`/`basename "$1"`"
popd >&-

echo $absolute
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