How to get full path of a file from another directory in shell script? [duplicate]

Question

I've a shell script at

/home/abc/xyz/test.sh

I've a file at

/home/def/ghi/jkl/lmn/foo.txt

I'm running the scrip from /home as I've set my PATH variable to point to /home/abc/xyz/

I'm passing the relative path of foo.txt to my script like so test ./def/ghi/jkl/lmn/foo.txt

I want to capture the full path of foo.txt into a variable in my script, any pointers?

Eugene Yao · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-20 04:47:31Z

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foobar=`readlink -f <passed in relative path to foo.txt>`

answered Mar 20, 2016 at 4:47

Eugene Yao

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