On 12/09/2014 08:11 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > 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. > Perfect! Thanks!!!