A script I'm writing needs to work out the target of a symbolic link, i.e. given: $ touch foo $ ln -s foo bar the function should print bar when given foo as a parameter. The manual says "ls -L" should do this, but it doesn't seem to work: $ touch foo $ ln -s foo bar $ ls -l foo bar lrwxrwxrwx 1 poc poc 3 Jun 19 21:32 bar -> foo -rw-rw-r-- 1 poc poc 0 Jun 19 21:32 foo $ ls -L bar bar (should give foo) Have I misunderstood what "ls -L" does? Is there a bug? And is there a better way of doing this? poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
