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I already read about realpath() , but is there a function that I can pass a base directory and a filename that would give me the following result without resolving symlinks or checking whether files actually exist? Or do I have to use a modified realpath() ? "/var/", "../etc///././/passwd" => "/etc/passwd" Here is a normalize_path() function: If the given path is relative, the function starts by prepending the current working directory to it. Then the special path components like .. , . or empty components are treated, and the result is returned. For .. , the last component is removed if there

This question has appeared in similar forms here and here , but they don't seem to match up with what I'm looking for. I'm making a project in StaticMatic, a Ruby static site generator. Basically, it's just a src/ directory with Haml templates, Sass, and CoffeeScript. StaticMatic provides a development server to keep compiling these into a static site, as well as a build command that generates the static site in build/. My modification to StaticMatic is to allow the addition of src/_modules/foo/, which might contain src/_modules/foo/bar.haml. When running the server or building the site, a

I have installed nginx on Ubuntu 12.04. However, nginx does not seem to follow symlinks. I understand that there is a config change required for this but I am not able to find where to make the change. Any help appreciated. cobaco Have a look at the following config option from nginx docs : Syntax: disable_symlinks off; disable_symlinks on | if_not_owner [from=part]; Default: disable_symlinks off; Context: http, server, location This directive appeared in version 1.1.15. In my case nginx was already configured to follow symbolic links. But the issue was the user nginx could not access my home

I basically have to write a clone of the UNIX ls command for a class, and I've got almost everything working. One thing I can't seem to figure out how to do is check whether a file is a symbolic link or not. From the man page for stat() , I see that there is a mode_t value defined, S_IFLNK . This is how I'm trying to check whether a file is a sym-link, with no luck (note, stbuf is the buffer that stat() returned the inode data into): switch(stbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT){ case S_IFLNK: printf("this is a link\n"); break; case S_IFREG: printf("this is not a link\n"); break; } My code ALWAYS prints this

This question already has an answer here: Java 1.6 - determine symbolic links 7 answers Given a Java 'File' object, how can I detect whether or not it refers to a symlink? (If it helps/matters, I know the file refers to a directory, not to a file) Also you can use isSymbolicLink(Path path) method. It will be more reliable. java.io.File file = ...; boolean isSymbolicLink = Files.isSymbolicLink(file.toPath()); Similar examples from Java Doc ' Detecting a Symbolic Link '. Bozho File.getCanonicalPath() resolves symlinks A canonical pathname is both absolute and unique. The precise definition of

Yet another Docker symlink question. I have a bunch of files that I want to copy over to all my Docker builds. My dir structure is: parent_dir - common_files - file.txt - dir1 - Dockerfile - symlink -> ../common_files In above example, I want file.txt to be copied over when I docker build inside dir1. But I don't want to maintain multiple copies of file.txt. Per this link, as of docker version 0.10 , docker build must Follow symlinks inside container's root for ADD build instructions. But I get no such file or directory when I build with either of these lines in my Dockerfile: ADD symlink