readlink

Options

--canonicalize, -f

readlink-help-canonicalize

--canonicalize-existing, -e

readlink-help-canonicalize-existing

--canonicalize-missing, -m

readlink-help-canonicalize-missing

--no-newline, -n

readlink-help-no-newline

--quiet, -q

readlink-help-quiet

--silent, -s

readlink-help-silent

--verbose, -v

readlink-help-verbose

--zero, -z

readlink-help-zero

Examples

Get the actual file to which the symlink points:

readlink {{path/to/file}}

Get the absolute path to a file:

readlink {{[-f|--canonicalize]}} {{path/to/file}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.