[ale] bash, full filename

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 01:49 pm, David Corbin wrote:
> How can I take a filename (which may or may not be relative) and convert it
> to be a fully qualified filename, in bash?

This was kinda fun:

fullname ()
{
    name=$1
    filename=`basename $name`
    dirname=`dirname $name`
    cd $dirname > /dev/null
    fulldir=`pwd`
    cd - > /dev/null
    echo "${fulldir}/`basename $1`"
}

Now you can use it:
[1038] hirsch>fullname bin/limewire
/home/hirsch/bin/limewire
[1039] hirsch>fullname /usr/bin/xpdf
/usr/bin/xpdf
[1040] hirsch>fullname ../../usr/bin/xpdf
/usr/bin/xpdf
[1041] hirsch>fullname ./Admin
/home/hirsch/Admin

Michael