Manpage of READLINK
READLINK
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2005
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NAME
readlink - display value of a symbolic link
SYNOPSIS
readlink
[OPTION]... FILE
DESCRIPTION
Display value of a symbolic link on standard output.
- -f, --canonicalize
-
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given path recursively;
all but the last path component must exist
- -e, --canonicalize-existing
-
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given path recursively,
all path components must exist
- -m, --canonicalize-missing
-
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given path 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 bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
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 readlink
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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