On Sun, 24 May 2009 19:13:54 -0400
"A. Costa" <agco...@gis.net> wrote:

> Revised suggestion, provide context, something like:
> 
>       % realpath k
>       error: dangling symlink chain, '/tmp/links/k > /tmp/links/j
> > /tmp/links/i > /tmp/links/h > /tmp/links/g > /tmp/links/f
> > > /tmp/links/e > /tmp/links/d > /tmp/links/c', but '/tmp/links/c'
> > > does not exist.

It turns out that the 'chase' package (v0.5.2-3) & command does all that:

        % chase --verbose k ; echo $?
        k
        -> j
        -> i
        -> h
        -> g
        -> f
        -> e
        -> d
        -> c
        chase: /tmp/links/c: No such file or directory
        1

Forgot about 'chase'.  But 'realpath' is the easier name to recall and
associate with its function.

HTH...



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