[boulder.pm] "bounced" message from Joel about symlinks

Walter Pienciak walter at frii.com
Fri Sep 21 23:46:05 CDT 2001


Hey, Myke,

Ever finish that keg from Adopt-a-Crag Day?

Walter "Oops, wrong list"

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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Myke Komarnitsky wrote:

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

$target = readlink $linkfilename;

More info:
	perldoc -f readlink

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Joel Maslak
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