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[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, as it says in the documentation I linked:

unlike canonicalize absolute does not resolve symlinks and may succeed even if the path does not exist.

Primarily, the latter part is what I want. There's just sometimes situations where a path doesn't exist (yet), but you want to know what it would look like as an absolute path.

[โ€“] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In 99% of those cases you would want it to resolve .. components though.