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iloveitaly on 05/13/10


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Relative to Absolute Path Conversion

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URL: http://andy.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/bash-equivalent-for-php-realpath/

the os x version of realpath works differently than the linux version; the following allows you to attain the same functionality in a shell on os x as readlink -f $0 on a standard linux dist.

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  1. normalize_path() {
  2. 	eval "NORMALIZED_PATH=$1"
  3. 	NORMALIZED_PATH=`php -r "echo realpath('$NORMALIZED_PATH');"`
  4. }

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