Answer by Arj for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
The simplest if you want to use only builtins is probably: find `pwd` -name fileName Only an extra two words to type, and this will work on all unix systems, as well as OSX.
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The dogbane answer with the description what is coming on: #! /bin/sh echo "$(cd "$(dirname "$1")"; pwd)/$(basename "$1")" Explanation: This script get relative path as argument "$1" Then we get...
View ArticleAnswer by Atika for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
An alternative to get the absolute path in Ruby: realpath() {ruby -e "require 'Pathname'; puts Pathname.new('$1').realpath.to_s";} Works with no arguments (current folder) and relative and absolute...
View ArticleAnswer by fred.johnsen for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
I have placed the following script on my system & I call it as a bash alias for when I want to quickly grab the full path to a file in the current dir: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/find "$PWD" -maxdepth 1...
View ArticleAnswer by Alek for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
This is not an answer to the question, but for those who does scripting: echo `cd "$1" 2>/dev/null&&pwd||(cd "$(dirname "$1")";pwd|sed "s|/*\$|/${1##*/}|")` it handles / .. ./ etc correctly....
View ArticleAnswer by icyyd for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
Hey guys I know it's an old thread but I am just posting this for reference to anybody else who visited this like me. If i understood the question correctly, I think the locate $filename command. It...
View ArticleAnswer by ShellFish for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
#! /bin/bash file="$@" realpath "$file" 2>/dev/null || eval realpath $(echo $file | sed 's/ /\\ /g') This makes up for the shortcomings of realpath, store it in a shell script fullpath. You can now...
View ArticleAnswer by Alexander Klimetschek for bash/fish command to print absolute path...
This relative path to absolute path converter shell function requires no utilities (just cd and pwd) works for directories and files handles .. and . handles spaces in dir or filenames requires that...
View ArticleAnswer by bsingh for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
For directories dirname gets tripped for ../ and returns ./. nolan6000's function can be modified to fix that: get_abs_filename() { # $1 : relative filename if [ -d "${1%/*}" ]; then echo "$(cd...
View ArticleAnswer by peterh for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
Forget about readlink and realpath which may or may not be installed on your system. Expanding on dogbane's answer above here it is expressed as a function: #!/bin/bash get_abs_filename() { # $1 :...
View ArticleAnswer by babou for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
There is generally no such thing as the absolute path to a file (this statement means that there may be more than one in general, hence the use of the definite article the is not appropriate). An...
View ArticleAnswer by Flimm for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
$ readlink -m FILE /path/to/FILE This is better than readlink -e FILE or realpath, because it works even if the file doesn't exist.
View ArticleAnswer by wjv for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
Here's a zsh-only function that I like for its compactness. It uses the ‘A’ expansion modifier — see zshexpn(1). realpath() { for f in "$@"; do echo ${f}(:A); done }
View ArticleAnswer by lessthanideal for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
The find command may help find $PWD -name ex* find $PWD -name example.log Lists all the files in or below the current directory with names matching the pattern. You can simplify it if you will only get...
View ArticleAnswer by hluk for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
If you don't have readlink or realpath utilities than you can use following function which works in bash and zsh (not sure about the rest). abspath () { case "$1" in /*)printf "%s\n" "$1";; *)printf...
View ArticleAnswer by Dennis Williamson for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a...
Try readlink which will resolve symbolic links: readlink -e /foo/bar/baz
View ArticleAnswer by dogbane for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
#! /bin/sh echo "$(cd "$(dirname "$1")"; pwd -P)/$(basename "$1")"
View ArticleAnswer by Benjamin Bannier for bash/fish command to print absolute path to a...
Try realpath. $ realpath example.txt /home/username/example.txt
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Question: is there a simple sh/bash/zsh/fish/... command to print the absolute path of whichever file I feed it? Usage case: I'm in directory /a/b and I'd like to print the full path to file c on the...
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Answer with Homebrewrealpath is the best answer, but if you don't have it installed, you must first run brew install coreutils which will install coreutils with lots of awesome functions. Writing a...
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