[ale] bash, full filename

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

David,

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 19:27, David Corbin wrote:
> I want to be able to convert:
> 
> foobar          to  /home/dcorbin/foobar  (if I'm in /home/dcorbin)
> /etc/passwd  to  /etc/passwd
> ../fred/foobar to  /home/fred/foobar (if I'm in /home/dcorbin)

	Well this is perhaps too late, but if you have a similar need in the
future, you might look into realpath(3) (a C library call).

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Danny