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

[Michael L Torrie]

Andrew McNabb wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:47:32PM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> abspath=$(cd $(dirname $fn); pwd)/$(basename $fn)
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> Okay.  Yours it better than mine. :)

Wow.  Awesome.  Bash is just one giant hack, isn't it.

My solution, thanks to Byron clark is:

abspath=$( readlink -f $fn )

readlink is part of the standard GNU coreutils.

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