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deepsoul on 08/07/09


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Canonical absolute path

 / Published in: Bash
 

The following shell function returns the canonicalised abolute path of a file. It resolves symbolic links, /./ and /../ as applicable. This was adapted from various sources. Related snippets on snipplr are Find absolute path of Bash script and Get current script name and absolute paths.

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  1. function canonpath () 
  2. { 
  3.     echo $(cd $(dirname $1); pwd -P)/$(basename $1)
  4. }

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Posted By: sschuldenzucker on March 1, 2012

Quotes!

echo "$(cd $(dirname "$1"); pwd -P)/$(basename "$1")"

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