<p>If I have a shell script where I get the parent folder using "../" can I expand that out somehow into it's absolute path?</p>

<p>You want <code>readlink -f</code>.</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>$ cd /tmp $ readlink -f .. / </code></pre>

How to get full path from "../" on command line in Linux shell script

You want readlink -f.

$ cd /tmp
$ readlink -f ..
/

answered Oct 08 '22 18:10

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