Hello and thanks for your help!
Here is the problem I have:

In /var/tmp, I have file1, file2 and flink and flink ->file1, I need to get the absolute path of file1, which is /var/tmp/file1 to compare it with string fp1, the problem is that I cant get absolute path, how to solve the issue? 

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $lpath = /var/tmp/flink;
my $fp1 = /var/tmp/file1;
my $realpath =readlink($lpath); #which returns file1;
my $absolutepath = abs_path($realpath); #returns ~/perl/file1, where ~
+/perl is where my perl script is, not correct
if (-e $realpath) {
    print "$realpath exist\n";
}
else { 
    print "not exist\n"; #which is not true  
}

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Should I parse the $realpath, if there is no "/" or if it starts with "./", get the directory path from $lpath?

In reply to symbolic link and absolute path by joybee2015

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