readlink - print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
readlink [OPTION]... FILE
READLINK(1) User Commands READLINK(1)
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/>
Report readlink translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
ject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012 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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | file/gnu-coreutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
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.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core-
utils-8.16.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/.
GNU coreutils 8.16 March 2012 READLINK(1)