realpath

Options

--quiet, -q

realpath-help-quiet

--strip, --no-symlinks, -s

realpath-help-strip

--zero, -z

realpath-help-zero

--logical, -L

realpath-help-logical

--physical, -P

realpath-help-physical

--canonicalize-existing, -e

realpath-help-canonicalize-existing

--canonicalize-missing, -m

realpath-help-canonicalize-missing

--relative-to=<DIR>

realpath-help-relative-to

--relative-base=<DIR>

realpath-help-relative-base

Examples

Display the absolute path for a file or directory:

realpath {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

Require all path components to exist:

realpath {{[-e|--canonicalize-existing]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

Resolve ".." components before symlinks:

realpath {{[-L|--logical]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

Disable symlink expansion:

realpath {{[-s|--no-symlinks]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

Suppress error messages:

realpath {{[-q|--quiet]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

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.