# /bin/bash
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# Description: list all parents of a given path.
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MYFULLPATH=$1

# Path must be supplied.
if [ -z "${MYFULLPATH}" ]; then
        echo "Please supply a full path."
        exit 1
fi

# Path must exist.
# TODO - what if perms are broken on way to dest?
#if [ ! -e "${MYFULLPATH}" ]; then
#        echo "${MYFULLPATH} not found."
#        exit 2
#fi

# Path must contain a slash.
# FIXME: need this here.

NEWDIR=${MYFULLPATH}

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# Until the path is root, strip off the last part (the basename)
# and append it to a list for listing later.  By building the list
# before the ls rather than listing as we go, the columns in the
# ls output will be aligned.

while [ ! "${NEWDIR}" == '/' -a ! "${NEWDIR}" == '.' ]; do
    DIRLIST="${DIRLIST} ${NEWDIR}"
        # Strip the last piece off of the given path.
    NEWDIR=`dirname ${NEWDIR}`
    #echo ${NEWDIR}
        #sleep 1
done

echo ${DIRLIST} | xargs ls -lad

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