[ale] Does anyone have a definitive way of determining the target of a soft link in bash?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:32 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:

> Thanks, guys, a combination of readlink and Jim's script did what I want.
> 
I learned about readlink today!

> For the record:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> ls -l current
> readlink -f current| grep db2
> if [ $? == 0 ]
> then
> echo  is db2
> rm current && ln -sf db1 current
> else
> echo is db1
> rm current && ln -sf db2 current
> fi
> ls -l current
> 
> Jim.
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