<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Hi Nikolay,</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> We use guestfish, so I preferred to use commands supported by guestfish.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I tried as below but "realpath" is not working after I have the target path from symlink.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> --> Check if the path has a symlink.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is-symlink path</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Ex. - is-symlink "/etc/resolv.conf" -> return true</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> --> If it's true then get target link path</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> readlink path</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ex. - readlink "/etc/resolv.conf" --> return "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">../</span>run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf"</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> --> Which return's target path but it's not a full path, so needs to get full path to access the target file. </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Tried to use realpath as below using target path from above return but it's giving None</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ex. - realpath "<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0)">../</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf</span>" --> return None</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Can you tell me how can I get the real path as without the fu<span style="font-family: calibri, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">ll </span><span style="font-family: calibri, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); display: inline !important;">canonicalized absolute path I can't do anything with that file.</span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; display: inline !important"><br> </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; display: inline !important"><br> </span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: calibri, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; display: inline !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Thanks,</span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: calibri, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; display: inline !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Chintan</span></div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> libguestfs-bounces@redhat.com <libguestfs-bounces@redhat.com> on behalf of Nikolay Ivanets <stenavin@gmail.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 28, 2019 2:00 AM<br> <b>To:</b> Chintan Patel<br> <b>Cc:</b> libguestfs@redhat.com<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libguestfs] Guestfish command - "copy-out" not working for symbolic links</font> <div> </div> </div> <div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div class="PlainText">If it is one time operation you can call 'realpath'<br> (<a href="http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_realpath">http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_realpath</a>) first to<br> resolve symlink.<br> <br> --<br> +380979184774<br> Mykola Ivanets<br> <br> ןע, 28 קונג. 2019 מ 11:11 Chintan Patel <Chintan.Patel@microsoft.com> ןטרו:<br> ><br> > HI,<br> ><br> > I’m trying to use copu-out command to copy files from remote disk but it’s not working if the file is symbolic link.<br> ><br> > copy-out giving an error like below.<br> > libguestfs: error: ‘/etc/resolv.conf’ is not a file or directory<br> > This file is there but it's a symbolic link<br> ><br> > Do you have any other way to copy remote symbolic link files?<br> ><br> > Thanks,<br> ><br> > Chintan<br> ><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > Libguestfs mailing list<br> > Libguestfs@redhat.com<br> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs</a><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Libguestfs mailing list<br> Libguestfs@redhat.com<br> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs</a></div> </span></font></div> </body> </html>