[Linux-disciples] Following symlinks in 'find'

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Well, if you do your find from /, doesn't that give you absolute paths?

There may also be a formatting directive that does it--check the find info
page under printf ---> formatting directives.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:07:50PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> How about
>>
>> 	find /etc/rc[0-9].d -type l -printf "%l\n"
>>
>> Does that do what you want?
> 
> It seems to; thanks a bunch.
> 
> Next step: take the (sometimes) relative paths returned by
> that find command and turn them into absolute paths.
> realpath(1) is available, but it doesn't seem to come
> standard with every UNIX. Is there a portable (which is to
> say, I guess, POSIX-compliant) realpath equivalent?


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