Jon Seymour wrote: > Has anyone ever come across an equivalent to Linux's readlink -f that > is implemented purely in bash? > > (I need readlink's function on AIX where it doesn't seem to be available).
Try this: ls -l /path/to/some/link | awk '{print$NF}' Sure it doesn't handle whitespace in filenames but what classic AIX Unix symlink would have whitespace in it? :-) Bob