READLINK

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NAME

readlink - display target of symbolic link on standard output

SYNOPSIS

readlink [-fn ] file

DESCRIPTION

The readlink utility when invoked with the pathname of a symbolic link as its argument dereferences the symbolic link and prints the name of target on standard output. If readlink is invoked with an argument other than the pathname of a symbolic link, it exits with a non-zero exit code without printing anything.

The following options are available:

-f: Using realpath(3), canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given path recursively. Note that the resultant pathname might not exist,
-n: Do not print a trailing newline character.

The readlink utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.

NOTE

Debian packages using readlink in maintainer scripts must depend on debianutils >= 1.13.1.

HISTORY

The readlink utility first appeared in BSD Open

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