Getting absolute path of a file

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Use realpath().

The realpath() function shall derive,
from the pathname pointed to by
file_name, an absolute pathname that
names the same file, whose resolution
does not involve ‘.‘, ‘..‘, or
symbolic links. The generated pathname
shall be stored as a null-terminated
string, up to a maximum of {PATH_MAX}
bytes, in the buffer pointed to by
resolved_name.

If resolved_name is a null pointer,
the behavior of realpath() is
implementation-defined.

The following example generates an
absolute pathname for the file
identified by the symlinkpath
argument. The generated pathname is
stored in the actualpath array.

#include <stdlib.h>
...
char *symlinkpath = "/tmp/symlink/file";
char actualpath [PATH_MAX+1];
char *ptr;


ptr = realpath(symlinkpath, actualpath);

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