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readlink - display value of a symbolic link
readlink [OPTION]...
FILE
Display value of a symbolic link on standard output.
- -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
Written by Dmitry V. Levin.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008
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.
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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