[Mithras]

Hi all,

I have what must be a simple question for people who know their way around Carbon: How can I resolve an alias, given a POSIX path?

All I want is a simple command-line tool that I can feed the POSIX path to an alias file, and will spit out the POSIX path to its 'original item'.

Is this easily done?

TIA,
mithras

[ambush]

search google for 'BDAlias', it's a fun Cocoa wrapper..

[Wevah]

There's some sample code in the section that describes NSFileManager in the Cocoa documentation. The only thing I discovered about it is that whoever wrote it forgot to release one of the strings...

[Mithras]

Great, thanks very much. BDAlias made it a two-liner.

[Rickster]

Also, the extensions to NSFileManager in our open source OmniFoundation framework provide methods for both one-shot and recursive alias resolution. (The latter is what you generally want: given the path /foo/bar/baz/blegga, you want to be able to resolve it if any path element is an alias.) You can pretty easily pull this code out of the framework for use in your own projects.