in reply to Re: How to get a true canonical path
in thread How to get a true canonical path

Thanks - Look like it will do the trick. I need to check VMS though.

One thing I have noticed is that the directory must exist - and must actually be a directory. Feeding a file to Cwd::abs_path causes it to carp with "Not a directory".

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Re^3: How to get a true canonical path
by eserte (Deacon) on Jun 09, 2004 at 16:55 UTC
    Not on my system (perl5.8.0): 
    $ perl -MCwd=abs_path -e 'warn abs_path("$ENV{HOME}/../slavenr/.cshrc"
+)'
/home/slavenr/.cshrc at -e line 1.

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