How can I make pwd resolve a soft link?

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On one of our servers, we have a directory with the following path:

"/daten/i/scripts"

When you go to /daten/i, one can see that scripts is a soft link to "/batch".

When I type cd /daten/i/scripts and then pwd, I see /daten/i/scripts.

Is there a way, a command, that I can type in at /daten/i/scripts that shows me that I'm in a "soft link", that I am really in /batch?

If I'm not mistaken, the -L flag to pwd should help.
– schaiba
Sep 19, 2016 at 9:09 — schaiba, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:09

heemayl · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-19 09:10:10Z

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Yes, pwd has -P (--physical) option to avoid all symlinks.

So do:

pwd -P

or you can use the canonical way, readlink:

readlink -f /path

Check man pwd and man readlink.

answered Sep 19, 2016 at 9:10

heemayl

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man pwd says "-P, --physical - avoid all symlinks"
– schaiba
Sep 19, 2016 at 9:12

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