Cross-platform readlink -f

[Potherca]

Various scripts in this repository use readlink with the -f flag to follow symlinks but this flag is not available under OSX. Using realpath could be an alternative but it does not come installed by default across systems. For OSX only, greadlink is available but platform specific calls should be avoided, also, it might not be installed and the user should not be forced to install anything (as the code from this repo should be as self-contained as possible).

The most viable alternative would be a pure shell implementation of realpath, added as a vendor script. Luckily such a thing exists.

It should be added and all offending scripts should be edited to use it.

[Potherca]

As an alternative (or for the time being) the following could also be used as a portable solution:

$( unset CDPATH && cd $( dirname $0 )/../ && pwd -P )

Further testing for portability is needed, but this seems to work quite nicely...