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26 lines
775 B
Groff
.TH READLINK 1 sbase\-VERSION
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.SH NAME
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readlink \- print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B readlink
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.RB [ \-fn ]
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.IR file
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The readlink utility when invoked with the pathname of a symbolic link as
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its argument dereferences the symbolic link and prints the name of target
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on standard output. If the -f option is not specified and readlink is
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invoked with an argument other than the pathname of a symbolic link, it
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exits with a nonzero exit code without printing anything.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-f
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Canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the
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given path recursively. The argument does not need to be a symbolic
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link.
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.TP
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.B \-n
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Do not output the trailing newline.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.IR readlink (2),
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.IR realpath (3)
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