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at May 13, 2010 09:15 by iloveitaly
Initial Code 
normalize_path() {
	eval "NORMALIZED_PATH=$1"
	NORMALIZED_PATH=`php -r "echo realpath('$NORMALIZED_PATH');"`
}
Initial URL 
http://andy.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/bash-equivalent-for-php-realpath/
Initial Description 
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.
Initial Title 
Relative to Absolute Path Conversion
Initial Tags 
path, Bash, mac
Initial Language 
Bash