abspath

Langue: en

Version: 12/28/2007 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

Sommaire

NAME

abspath - return the absolute path of a file or directory

SYNOPSIS

abspath [options]... [path]...

DESCRIPTION

Return a normalized absolutized version of the pathnames. If no arguments are passed on the command line, the standard input is used.

OPTIONS

-r, --real-path

eliminate the symbolic links encoutered in the path

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

EXAMPLES

The following example is ran in /etc. The path returned is the obsolute path of the file

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 $ abspath passwd
 /etc/passwd

An example with an absolute path. The path is only simplified

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 $ abspath /etc///./../mnt/
 /mnt

The --real-path eliminate the symbolic links in the path. The next examples are ran in /etc

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 $ abspath ../usr/sbin/sendmail
 /usr/sbin/sendmail
 $ abspath ../usr/sbin/sendmail --real-path
 /usr/sbin/ssmtp

BUGS

Coded in python for prototyping purpose. Should be recoded in C. Nothing else known at this time.

AUTHOR

Written by Gaëtan Lehmann, <mailto:gaetan.lehmann@jouy.inra.fr>

RESOURCES

Main web site: http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr/darcs/abspath

Darcs web: http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=abspath

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2006 Gaëtan Lehmann. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).