Re: symlink chain.

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/26/2014 08:50 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> I just noticed that 'whence -s' very quietly 'finishes' a chain of 
> links, and shows you the final target.  'ls' OTOH only ever shows you 
> the first link in a chain. It gets me wanting some way of showing an 
> entire chain of links where that applies.  Can it be done? It occurred 
> to me that perhaps 'whence' should not use the standard " -> " symbol 
> when showing a link, because it's not a normal display, but a jump to 
> the end of the chain.  Dunno, is there a better symbol for that?  " 
> ->> " or something?
Well, pending a zsh internal solution, 'namei' does the trick very nicely.
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