Re: how to get the absolute pathname of the current shell?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-12-06 08:30:20 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Dec 6,  2:27pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> } Currently I'm doing: ${$(whence -p ${0#-}):a}
> } 
> } But this doesn't work when there are symbolic links
> 
> If the above is otherwise good enough, why not ${$(whence -p ${0#-}):A}
> which uses realpath() when it is available?  [See above about different
> code depending on OS ...]

Using :A instead of :a doesn't solve the problem.

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