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Open the parent folder of a symbolic link via right-click?

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We can open a parent folder of any file using nautilus script like

#!/bin/bash 



nautilus "$1"

If I do this script on symbolic link which is on the ~/Desktop, then it will open the Desktop itself.

How can I recode this script to open the parent of actual file symbolic link is bound to? For example, if I have a sym link file Desktop/my-doc.doc linking to the doc file located in /media/myharddisk/my-doc.doc, the script will open /media/myharddisk/ and NOT ~/Desktop in Nautilus.

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answered 2 Years ago assionortly · Accepted Answer

Try this:

#!/bin/bash



file="$(readlink -f "$1")"

nautilus "${file%/*}"