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| author | root | 2013-02-25 14:39:26 +0100 |
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| committer | root | 2013-02-25 14:39:26 +0100 |
| commit | 2598a2f4ec750b00610e1bac78fa3963231ab610 (patch) | |
| tree | a0ebe96e859adac1c662297f45b4c46ac8858a78 /helper/string.inc | |
| parent | Merge branch 'master' of git.openslx.org:openslx-ng/tm-scripts (diff) | |
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canonicalize function for paths
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| -rw-r--r-- | helper/string.inc | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/helper/string.inc b/helper/string.inc index 1d15b26e..0a166708 100644 --- a/helper/string.inc +++ b/helper/string.inc @@ -7,3 +7,8 @@ trim() { echo -n "$var" } +# usage: CANONICALIZED_STRING=$(canonalize <path>) +# usage with relative path requires you to be in the correct directory. +canonicalize() { + cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$1")" && printf '%s\n' "$(pwd -P)/$(basename -- "$1")" +} |