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navin
Super Advisor

‎03-14-2005 12:53 PM

‎03-14-2005 12:53 PM

symbolic link

Hi,
i want to list the target path where the sym link points to ( now i see like ../../Oradb).
please help.
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Steven E. Protter
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‎03-14-2005 01:18 PM

‎03-14-2005 01:18 PM

Re: symbolic link

ll linkname

Shows the path of the soft link.

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A. Clay Stephenson
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‎03-14-2005 01:20 PM

‎03-14-2005 01:20 PM

Re: symbolic link

If I understand your question that is not how symbolic links work. If you have a symbolic link that points to a relative path like ../../Oradb, it means exactly that. For example, if you renamed thje parent directory, the link would still work. To do what you want to do, recreate the symbolic link using absolute paths. You can write a script to parse the pathname (man dirname, pathname for details) and follow the chain. Using symbolic links, it is perfectly possible to create paths that point to nonexistant paths.
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navin
Super Advisor

‎03-14-2005 03:00 PM

‎03-14-2005 03:00 PM

Re: symbolic link

thank you ,i'm going to try
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