Allow 'ansible-cmdb' wrapper to be a symlink#239
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Enhances 'ansible-cmdb' wrapper script to be able to find 'ansible-cmdb.py' when 'ansible-cmdb' is a symlink. Currently the search paths around 'ansible-cmdb' are relative to the location of the symlink. We can use 'readlink -f' to instead follow the symlink and search from the actual location of 'ansible-cmdb' The use-case where this comes up is we want to add 'ansible-cmdb' to the path. To do this we are creating a symlink from '/bin/ansible-cmdb' to its actual location. After this update, the command '/bin/ansible-cmdb' works as expected because the wrapper script follows the symlink.
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Enhances 'ansible-cmdb' wrapper script to be able to find 'ansible-cmdb.py' when 'ansible-cmdb' is a symlink.
Currently the search paths around 'ansible-cmdb' are relative to the location of the symlink. We can use 'readlink -f'
to instead follow the symlink and search from the actual location of 'ansible-cmdb'
The use-case where this comes up is we want to add 'ansible-cmdb' to the path. To do this we are creating a symlink
from '/bin/ansible-cmdb' to its actual location. After this update, the command '/bin/ansible-cmdb' works as expected
because the wrapper script follows the symlink.
This update is backward compatible. If '$0' is a file, then "readlink -f" will return the canonical file name of that file (existing behavior), otherwise if '$0' is a symlink then we recursively follow every symlink of '$0'.
For convenience, the man info on the '-f' flag:
And the man info of 'readlink':