realpath needs to be included in all version of Mint

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realpath needs to be included in all version of Mint

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Install with apt-get.

Most useful in shell scripting to resolve paths with ../ That is relative paths to real paths from /
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Re: realpath needs to be included in all version of Mint

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That similar to what readlink -f does. For example to get the canonical path of parent directory:

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readlink -f ../
readlink is part of coreutils, so present on all GNU/Linux distros.
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