On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:57:03PM -0500, ken wrote: > You'd think this functionality would be included already in one or > another linux utility. It's kinda like the complement to the > 'basename' utility. I've looked into the dark corners of ls, stat, > file, bash, type, find, and a few other linux standards, but nothing > seems to do this. 'readlink -f FILE' The -f (or --canonicalize) follows symlinks and prints the canonical path. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>