How to convert the .. in the path names to absolute path names in a bash script. That is, if I have a path /home/nohsib/dvc/../bop, I want this to be changed to the path without dots in it, in this case /home/nohsib/bop
How can I do that?
How to convert ".." in path names to absolute name in a bash script?
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Relative paths must be converted into absolute, it is NOT required to exist!
Neither symlinks should be resolved.
Try this one-line python solution:
abs_path=$(python -c "import os; print(os.path.abspath(\"$rel_path\"))")
in your example:
python -c "import os; print(os.path.abspath(\"/home/nohsib/dvc/../bop\"))"
returns /home/nohsib/bop
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