resolve symlinks at arbitrary depth

resolve-symlink.sh

# SCRIPT may be an arbitrarily deep series of symlinks. Loop until we have the concrete path.
while [ -h "$SCRIPT" ] ; do
  ls=`ls -ld "$SCRIPT"`
  # Drop everything prior to ->
  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
  if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
    SCRIPT="$link"
  else
    SCRIPT=`dirname "$SCRIPT"`/"$link"
  fi
done