readlink

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Follow symlinks and get symlink information.

Options (1)

-f, --canonicalizeboolean

Get the absolute path to a file

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

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