I'd like to simplify a path containing parent directory (..) references, but without making it absolute.  E.g., a path like foo/bar/../baz should be simplified to foo/baz since the bar/.. part cancels out1.    1 Strictly speaking, this is not true if bar is a symlink somewhere else - but feel free to ignore this: I don't care if the simplification returns different results than the original path in the presence of symlinks.
Is there a Unix command to get the absolute (and canonicalized) path from a relative path which may contain symbolic links?
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