#!/bin/sh

# AbsoluteName.sh
# Mon Jul 28 17:14:06 GMT 2008
# Chieh Cheng
# http://www.CynosureX.com/

# GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2, June 1991

  scriptName=`basename "$0"`

usage ()
{
  echo "  Usage:   ${scriptName} \"directory\""
  echo "             or"
  echo "           ${scriptName} \"file\""
}

  if [ $# -eq 1 ]
  then
    file="$1"
    absolute=`echo "${file}" | grep -c "^/"`
    if [ ${absolute} -eq 1 ]
    then
      echo "${file}"
    else
      cwd=`pwd`
      parent=`dirname "${file}"`
      child=`basename "${file}"`
      cd "${parent}"
      absoluteParent=`pwd`      
      echo "${absoluteParent}/${child}" | sed "s|//|/|g"
      cd "${cwd}"
    fi
  else
    usage
  fi