Re: how to get a directory's "full" name?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Aditya Kher wrote:

> > cd to arg, then echo full dir name.  is there a simpler or
> > built-in way that's better?
>
> the unix command dirname gives the directory name see also basename
> for getting file name in a similar manner

i'm confused -- how would you use that within a makefile?

rday