Armin Kunaschik [off-list ref] writes:
t7800 fails on systems where readlink (GNUism?) is not available.
I don't think it's POSIX, but it is present on all POSIX-like systems I
know. On which system did you get the issue?
+readlink() { ls -ld "$1" | sed 's/.* -> //'; }
This is much less robust than the actual readlink. For example, if ->
appears in the link name, it breaks.
It would be acceptable as a fall-back if readlink is not present, but
shouldn't activate the "ls" hack by default.
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