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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:39 PM Jeff Pohlmeyer
<yetanothergeek@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 5:03 AM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek@gmail.com> 于2020年1月30日周四 下午5:08写道:
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> > > "readlink -f" might be more common, and should have similar results.
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> > No correct, both of them are components of GNU coreutils:
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> Readlink was added to coreutils in January 2003.
> Realpath was added to coreutils in December 2011.
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> So readlink is more likely to be available, even on ancient systems.

I agree. Better to use readlink -f instead of realpath. I just used
the first one that comes to my mind.