正如Adam Liss所指出的，realpath并非与每个发行版都捆绑在一起。这很遗憾，因为这是最好的解决方案。提供的源代码很棒，我可能现在就开始使用它。以下是我到目前为止一直在使用的，只是为了完整起见，我在这里分享:

get_abs_path() {
     local PARENT_DIR=$(dirname "$1")
     cd "$PARENT_DIR"
     local ABS_PATH="$(pwd)"/"$(basename "$1")"
     cd - >/dev/null
     echo "$ABS_PATH"
} 

如果您希望它解析符号链接，只需将pwd替换为pwd -P。

话多，回答有点晚。我需要写一个，因为我卡住了旧的RHEL4/5。 I处理绝对和相对链接，并简化//，/。/和somedir/../条目。

test -x /usr/bin/readlink || readlink () {
        echo $(/bin/ls -l $1 | /bin/cut -d'>' -f 2)
    }


test -x /usr/bin/realpath || realpath () {
    local PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
    local inputpath=$1
    local changemade=1
    while [ $changemade -ne 0 ]
    do
        changemade=0
        local realpath=""
        local token=
        for token in ${inputpath//\// }
        do 
            case $token in
            ""|".") # noop
                ;;
            "..") # up one directory
                changemade=1
                realpath=$(dirname $realpath)
                ;;
            *)
                if [ -h $realpath/$token ] 
                then
                    changemade=1
                    target=`readlink $realpath/$token`
                    if [ "${target:0:1}" = '/' ]
                    then
                        realpath=$target
                    else
                        realpath="$realpath/$target"
                    fi
                else
                    realpath="$realpath/$token"
                fi
                ;;
            esac
        done
        inputpath=$realpath
    done
    echo $realpath
}

mkdir -p /tmp/bar
(cd /tmp ; ln -s /tmp/bar foo; ln -s ../.././usr /tmp/bar/link2usr)
echo `realpath /tmp/foo`

我来晚了，但这是我在阅读了一堆这样的帖子后精心设计的解决方案:

resolve_dir() {
        (builtin cd `dirname "${1/#~/$HOME}"`'/'`basename "${1/#~/$HOME}"` 2>/dev/null; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then pwd; fi)
}

这将解析$1的绝对路径，很好地处理~，将符号链接保留在它们所在的路径中，并且不会打乱目录堆栈。它返回完整的路径，如果不存在则不返回。它期望$1是一个目录，如果不是的话可能会失败，但这是一个很容易自己做的检查。

如果你只想规范化一个路径，不管是否存在，不涉及文件系统，不解析任何链接，也不使用外部utils，这里有一个从Python的posixpath.normpath转换而来的纯Bash函数。

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Normalize path, eliminating double slashes, etc.
# Usage: new_path="$(normpath "${old_path}")"
# Translated from Python's posixpath.normpath:
# https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/posixpath.py#L337
normpath() {
  local IFS=/ initial_slashes='' comp comps=()
  if [[ $1 == /* ]]; then
    initial_slashes='/'
    [[ $1 == //* && $1 != ///* ]] && initial_slashes='//'
  fi
  for comp in $1; do
    [[ -z ${comp} || ${comp} == '.' ]] && continue
    if [[ ${comp} != '..' || (-z ${initial_slashes} && ${#comps[@]} -eq 0) || (\
      ${#comps[@]} -gt 0 && ${comps[-1]} == '..') ]]; then
      comps+=("${comp}")
    elif ((${#comps[@]})); then
      unset 'comps[-1]'
    fi
  done
  comp="${initial_slashes}${comps[*]}"
  printf '%s\n' "${comp:-.}"
}

例子:

new_path="$(normpath '/foo/bar/..')"
echo "${new_path}"
# /foo

normpath "relative/path/with trailing slashs////"
# relative/path/with trailing slashs

normpath "////a/../lot/././/mess////./here/./../"
# /lot/mess

normpath ""
# .
# (empty path resolved to dot)

Personally, I cannot understand why Shell, a language often used for manipulating files, doesn't offer basic functions to deal with paths. In python, we have nice libraries like os.path or pathlib, which offers a whole bunch of tools to extract filename, extension, basename, path segments, split or join paths, to get absolute or normalized paths, to determine relations between paths, to do everything without much brain. And they take care of edge cases, and they're reliable. In Shell, to do any of these, either we call external executables, or we have to reinvent wheels with these extremely rudimentary and arcane syntaxes...

一个使用node.js的简单解决方案:

#!/usr/bin/env node
process.stdout.write(require('path').resolve(process.argv[2]));

基于loveborg出色的python代码片段，我这样写:

#!/bin/sh

# Version of readlink that follows links to the end; good for Mac OS X

for file in "$@"; do
  while [ -h "$file" ]; do
    l=`readlink $file`
    case "$l" in
      /*) file="$l";;
      *) file=`dirname "$file"`/"$l"
    esac
  done
  #echo $file
  python -c "import os,sys; print os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])" "$file"
done