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Re: symbolic links..

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Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:24:15 -0800

At 07:07 PM 2/20/00 -0500, Curt Sampson wrote:
>Well, it's not going to be terribly easy, since there's no non-kludgy
>way I know of to reliably get the target of a symlink in Unix.

Er... really? What about something like

 find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \; | awk ' { print $9 " " $10 " " $11 }'

[you might want to put a -follow after that "find"] -Tim 

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