On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > I've never been able to find this, and I've always wanted it. In Linux,
> > there are the basename and the dirname programs. Very handy. I want a
> > "fullname" program. You'd feed it a relative or absolute filename, and
> > it would give you back the fully qualified filename. This ought to be
> > doable in C, maybe using the inode number returned from a stat(2) call,
> > but I can't find a routine to discern the full path from an inode
> > number.
> >
> > Anyway, anyone know of a program like this, or what I might have to do
> > to build one (in C)?
>
> which(1)? type (in some whells)?
>
I know about which. It won't work for (for example) a file called
"admin.txt" in the root directory, when you're sitting in that
directory.
Paul
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