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Subject: Re: Is path symbolic?
From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:14:37 -0500
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WRKLNK does have an option to show more detail, IIRC, it can display whether something is a symbolic link.

HTH
Vern

On 4/27/2022 11:21 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:

Is there a good way to determine if a file actually resides at the
specified location, or whether it's a symlink to somewhere else?

The correct file I'm looking at is:
/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc/sshd_config

If I do an "ls" command, it shows it as a hard link. WRKLNK shows it as a
STMF. The tricky part is that the /etc/ directory IS a symlink.

Any ideas?

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