On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > ls -ld $(locate charter | grep -i font)
this is great, thanks! I do like this syntax a bit better, I think. While we're on the subject of ls, here's another problem... I often want to find out which version of a program I'm using, e.g., which xemacs which returns /usr/bin/xemacs of course, ls -l reveals: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2003-09-06 02:18 /usr/bin/xemacs -> /etc/alternatives/xemacs I can collapse these two steps now with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) ... but is there a way to trace the whole chain of symbolic links all the way to -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4254776 2002-04-09 18:46 /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.6-gnome-nomule following the links manually takes about 5 steps! Is there a command that will trace links recursively until it ends up at a real file? I've tried various switches on ls (ls -H, ls -L) but they don't seem to do what I want them to... anyway, thanks a bunch! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
