From: James Byrne <byrnejb@...>
Date: 2010-09-15T00:35:26+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one get an absolute absolute file path?

Robert Dober wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:05 PM, James Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> 
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> /home/me/projects/tmp/testing/lib/library
>>
>> which fails because there is no /home/me/projects/tmp/testing/lib
>> directory.
>>
>> My question is: Is there any way to obtain the absolute path for
>> __FILE__ such that it returns the path to its actual location and not
>> one that includes any logical links?
> 
> File.expand_path( File.dirname( __FILE__ ))
> normally does the trick for me.
> 
> HTH
> R.

This construction returns the logical link as part of the path. I want 
the actual file system path to the script ignoring the logical link.
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