READLINK

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.