Re: [PATCH] svn-config installedness test fails when symlinked

Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> writes:
> -thisdir="`dirname $0`"
> +me="$0"
> +if test -h "$me"; then
> + me="`ls -ld \"\$me\" | sed -ne 's/^.* -> *//p'"
> + if test -z "$me"; then me="$0"; fi
> +fi
> +thisdir="`dirname \"$me\"`"
> thisdir="`cd $thisdir && pwd`"
> if test -d $bindir; then
> tmpbindir="`cd $bindir && pwd`"

Maybe better to abstract to a function that loopingly resolves
symlinks until it reaches the end of the chain? The code above will
only resolve one level of symlink.

(Also, how portable is it to different 'ls' output formats?)

-K

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Received on Tue Sep 10 19:14:23 2002