OT: bash question

[Alan Gagne]

> My mistake.  I forgot to say that the file was invoked from a link.
> Your proposed solution shows the link's location.  I have to discover
> the target of the link.

echo `ls -la $0`

[Franta Hanzlík]

Alan J. Gagne wrote:
> > My mistake.  I forgot to say that the file was invoked from a link.
> > Your proposed solution shows the link's location.  I have to discover
> > the target of the link.
>
> echo `ls -la $0`

This will point only to first target. "readlink" has switches for
recursive resolv.