[boulder.pm] Finding a symbolic link target

Myke Komarnitsky myke at komar.org
Fri Sep 21 21:31:30 CDT 2001


I'm hoping you gurus out there can help me.

These are my two files,
lrwxrwxrwx    1 myke     nobody         40 Sep 20 11:15 search.words -> 
search.real.words
-rwxrwxrwx    1 myke     nobody       5000 Sep 20 11:15 search.real.words

and here's the important part of the perl script:
foreach $line (@ARGV) {
         if (-l $line) {
		print "$line is a symbolic link...";
	}
}

the trouble is, I really need to know what the TARGET of that symbolic link 
is.  Does anybody know how I can grab it?

thanks in advance,
Myke

Michael Komarnitsky      Komar Consulting Group
303.818.3718             http://consulting.komar.org
http://climbingboulder.com
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