From e99be6e5dcadeb723434203f0dc1cf2bfa63962f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:47:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mk: ruthlessly simplify findpath()

i love eval, printf and awk

eval, printf and awk are the best things ever

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
---
 mk | 12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mk b/mk
index 9ce58fe2..55b35a14 100755
--- a/mk
+++ b/mk
@@ -16,16 +16,8 @@ eval "`printf "LANG LANGUAGE LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE \
 
 findpath()
 {
-	[ $# -gt 0 ] && while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
-		found="`readlink -f "$1" 2>/dev/null`" || return 1; :
-		[ -n "$found" ] || \
-			found="`realpath "$1" 2>/dev/null`" || return 1
-
-		printf "%s\n" "$found"
-		shift 1
-	done && return 0
-
-	err "findpath: No arguments provided" "findpath" "$@"
+	eval "$(printf '%s\n' "$@" | awk '{printf \
+	    "readlink -f \"%s\" || realpath \"%s\" || return 1;\n", $0, $0}')"
 }
 
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