Jon Seymour wrote: > I always use sed for this purpose, so: > > $(cd "$dir"; ls -l "$base" | sed "s/.*->//") > > But, with pathological linking structures, this isn't quite enough - > particularly if the target of the link itself contains paths, some of > which may contain links :-)
Agreed! Symlinks with arbitrary data, such as holding small shopping lists in the target value, are so much fun. I am more concerned that arbitrary data such as "->" might exist in there more so than whitespace. That is why I usually don't use a pattern expression. But I agree it is another way to go. But it is easier to say whitespace is bad in filenames than to say whitespace is bad and oh yes you can't have "->" in there either. :-) Bob
