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in reply to resolving symbolic links in a pathname

I think you want abs_path in Cwd.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re^2: resolving symbolic links in a pathname
by Dominus (Parson) on Nov 23, 2007 at 03:20 UTC
    Pardon the not-very-useful wild guess, but wasn't there a nice example program in some old Camel Book that would print out an output like 
      /home/mjd/foo.c
  /home/mjd/bar/baz/foo.c
  /home/mjd/bar-1.0/baz/foo.c
  /userhomes/m/j/mjd/bar-1.0/baz/foo.c
  /mnt/homevol/m/j/mjd/bar-1.0/baz/foo.c

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    as it progressively resolved the symlinks in higher and higher components of a path?

    I thought it might have been one of those abandoned items in the Perl source eg/ directory, but I couldn't find it there, so the Camel Book was my next guess.

    Addendum: This looks kinda interesting too.

    --
    Mark Dominus
    Perl Paraphernalia

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      Yeah, in the pink Camel Book. I posted it here some time ago: Re: Following symlinks manually (historical code)

      ;-)

      --shmem 

      _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
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");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
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Re^2: resolving symbolic links in a pathname
by PerlDisciple (Novice) on Nov 23, 2007 at 03:24 UTC
    Thanks Randal.
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