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...

老问题了，但是如果你在shell级别处理完整路径名，有一个更简单的方法:

   abspath="$( cd "$path" && pwd )"

由于cd发生在子shell中，它不会影响主脚本。

假设你的shell内置命令接受-L和-P，有两种变化:

   abspath="$( cd -P "$path" && pwd -P )"    #physical path with resolved symlinks
   abspath="$( cd -L "$path" && pwd -L )"    #logical path preserving symlinks

就我个人而言，我很少需要这种后面的方法，除非我出于某种原因对符号链接着迷。

供参考:获取脚本起始目录的变体，即使脚本稍后更改了当前目录也能工作。

name0="$(basename "$0")";                  #base name of script
dir0="$( cd "$( dirname "$0" )" && pwd )"; #absolute starting dir

使用CD可以确保始终拥有绝对目录，即使脚本是通过./script.sh等命令运行的，如果没有CD /pwd，通常只会给出..如果脚本稍后执行cd，则无用。

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。

我最近的解决方案是:

pushd foo/bar/..
dir=`pwd`
popd

根据蒂姆·惠特科姆的回答。

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

使用coreutils包中的readlink实用程序。

MY_PATH=$(readlink -f "$0")