READLINK
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2011
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NAME
readlink - print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
SYNOPSIS
readlink
[
OPTION]...
FILE
DESCRIPTION
Print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
- -f, --canonicalize
-
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given name recursively;
all but the last component must exist
- -e, --canonicalize-existing
-
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given name recursively,
all components must exist
- -m, --canonicalize-missing
-
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given name recursively,
without requirements on components existence
- -n, --no-newline
-
do not output the trailing newline
-
-q, --quiet,
- -s, --silent
-
- suppress most error messages
- -v, --verbose
-
report error messages
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Dmitry V. Levin.
REPORTING BUGS
Report readlink bugs to
bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <
http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report readlink translation bugs to <
http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.shtml>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
readlink(2)
The full documentation for
readlink
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
readlink
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'readlink invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
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- SEE ALSO
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