Re^4: How to get the unique canonical path of a given path?

realpath absolutely does resolve links.

$ perl -MPath::Tiny -E 'say path("/home/ikegami/tmp")->realpath'
/tmp/ikegami
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There's also an example in the OP.

It's the only way to safely remove «..». Well, technically you only need to resolve links to the left of the «..».

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Re^5: How to get the unique canonical path of a given path? by hippo (Archbishop) on Jul 14, 2022 at 15:27 UTC
Ah yes, you are quite correct both in the result and the rationale. I'm left wondering what on earth it was I tried with this yesterday to come to the opposite, erroneous conclusion. 🦛	[reply]