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 command-line so that I can easily paste it into another program: /a/b/c. Simple, yet a little program to do this could probably save me 5 or so seconds when it comes to handling long paths, which in the end adds up. So it surprises me that I can't find a standard utility to do this — is there really none?
Here's a sample implementation, abspath.py:
#!/usr/bin/python# Author: Diggory Hardy <diggory.hardy@gmail.com># Licence: public domain# Purpose: print the absolute path of all input pathsimport sysimport os.pathif len(sys.argv)>1: for i in range(1,len(sys.argv)): print os.path.abspath( sys.argv[i] ) sys.exit(0)else: print >> sys.stderr, "Usage: ",sys.argv[0]," PATH." sys.exit(1)