Hi Lazar, Thank you for the modification, unfortunately this is a non-portable solution - the OSX readlink does not support the -e flag! Many Thanks Matthew > Hello everybody > > Not sure if this is the right place, but I do not know any other fsl email list. > > I think a minor modification is needed to $FSLDRI/bin/imtest > > maybe it was done already, maybe not > > imtest which I have has this section > > for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 > do > if [ -h $inputfile ] ; then > inputfile=`readlink $inputfile`; > fi > done > > I would think that in place of "readlink" it should be "readlink -e" > and remove the for-loop: > > if [ -h $inputfile ] ; then > inputfile=`readlink -e $inputfile`; > fi > > > That is we are trying to check if the "target" exists. > Current imtest will work for absolute links but might fail for relative ones. > > with the modification it should work for all. > > Thank you > > Lazar >