Scylla and Charybdis, getrealpath - Tools

The tools are developed under Linux with ESR's paradigm release early, release often in mind.
So you can consider this beta software, or alpha, or pre-alpha, or even worse ;)

Have a look in the download directory for all downloads.
As always here, all you get is the source. No binaries here.

getrealpath 0.2.0-20111024-061004

Print realpath to stdout (look into latest version, download latest version 0.2.0-20111024-061004, sig)

Actually there is a "realpath" utility for Debian which has some different features.

However I need tools which are optimized for pipe usage, like

find . -type f -print0 |
getrealpath -0 |
while read -r name;
do
eval eval name="\$'$name'";
...;
done

History:

version 0.2.0-20111024-061004

download (256439 bytes) sig

Current tinolib support, this means options for escapes.

One note for option '--':

'getrealpath --' does nothing, similar to 'echo -n | getrealpath -'.

version 0.1.0-20081125-015158

download (224464 bytes) sig

Now uses my own implementation of getrealpath, not the libc variant.

This improves behavior on non-existent paths, as the behavior on non-existent files is not defined in the libc variant. Note that the GNU libc v2 seems to work similar to what I did, however I do not want to rely on undocumented behavior (undocumented according to POSIX).

version 0.0.2-20061003-224034

download (132873 bytes)

Another fix in the source for Ubuntu

version 0.0.1-20061003-222950

(132674 bytes archive)

Now with tinolib which allows compile under Ubuntu, too.

The probelem is, that Ubuntu has no gawk as /bin/awk, but my scripts need gawk.

version 0.0.0-20060928-035513

(132421 bytes archive)

First version.

License and Disclaimer

All you can see here is free software according to the GNU GPL.
Copyright (C)2000-2011 by Valentin Hilbig
Note that the software comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind.
You use the software at your own risk.
Valentin Hilbig cannot be hold responsible for any unintended damage,
lost data or malfunction of the software you can find here.

Last modified: 2011-09-12 by Valentin Hilbig [ Imprint / Impressum ]