#realpath

function realpath {     if [[ "$1" =~ ^/ ]]; then         /usr/bin/php -r "echo realpath('$1') . PHP_EOL;"     else         /usr/bin/php -r "echo realpath('`pwd`/$1') . PHP_EOL;"     fi };

Let's follow the realpath. ;-}

: realpath: It is hard to add arbitrary cardinals to a list of names in coreutils. Cardinals can be chars. This should be easy, IMHO.

: realpath: Having roots in music, I love the shell-based synthesizer. Pipe straight to /dev/audio or 'esdcat'. It works great. coreutils

: realpath: coreutils will also need to add features to 'seq' to make create binary cardinals.

: realpath: not far to crypto on a shell line. Can coreutils do all that? It could, if it adds a 'tableize' utility.