Re^2: resolving symbolic links in a pathname


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Re^2: resolving symbolic links in a pathname

by Dominus (Parson)

on Nov 23, 2007 at 03:20 UTC ( #652483=note: print w/ replies, xml )

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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.

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Mark Dominus
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Re^3: resolving symbolic links in a pathname by merlyn (Sage) on Nov 23, 2007 at 03:41 UTC
You might be thinking of my column about expanding symbolic links. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re^3: resolving symbolic links in a pathname by shmem (Canon) on Nov 23, 2007 at 10:30 UTC
Yeah, in the pink Camel Book. I posted it here some time ago: Re: Following symlinks manually (historical code) ;-) --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]
Re^4: resolving symbolic links in a pathname by Dominus (Parson) on Nov 23, 2007 at 15:00 UTC
The `sl` program from the pink Camel Book is exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks! -- Mark Dominus Perl Paraphernalia	[reply]

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