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Welcome to bashoneliners.com, a curated collection of practical and well-explained Bash one-liners, snippets, tips and tricks. We aim to make each published one-liner to be of high quality: useful, easy to read, follows best practices, with clear, detailed, accurate explanation. These one-liners should help you automate tasks, troubleshoot problems, whether it be in system administration, file management, networking or programming.

Replace symlinks with the actual files they are pointing at

find /path/to/dir -type l -exec sh -c 'cp --remove-destination "$(readlink "{}")" "{}"' \; 

April 24, 2012bashoneliners

Find the target path a symlink is pointing to

readlink a_symbolic_link_to_somewhere

March 31, 2012bashoneliners