[ale] bash, full filename

[Stuffed Crust]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:42:17PM -0500, Jason Day 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?
> 
> If you can write a bit of C code and use an extra executable, there is a
> function in libc called realpath that does exactly what you want.  See
> man realpath for more info.

CHAR=`expr substr $file 1 1`
case $CHAR in 
	'/') 
		echo $file
		;;
	*)
	 	echo ${PWD}/$file
		;;
esac

A little more trickery is neessary if the relative path has ".." or "." 
in it (and you want to collapse it) but the path is otherwise still 
valid.

 - Pizza
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