|
HTML rendering created 2026-05-24 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH. |
|
|
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
|
|
|
READLINK(1) User Commands READLINK(1)
readlink - print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names
readlink [OPTION]... FILE...
realpath(1) is a better command for canonicalization
functionality.
Print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#readlink-f\-f, --canonicalize]8;;\
canonicalize by following every symlink in every component
of the given name recursively; all but the last component
must exist
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#readlink-e\-e, --canonicalize-existing]8;;\
canonicalize by following every symlink in every component
of the given name recursively; all components must exist
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#readlink-m\-m, --canonicalize-missing]8;;\
canonicalize by following every symlink in every component
of the given name recursively, without requirements on
components existence
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#readlink-n\-n, --no-newline]8;;\
do not output the trailing delimiter
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#readlink-q\-q, --quiet]8;;\
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#readlink-s\-s, --silent]8;;\
suppress most error messages (on by default if
POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set)
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#readlink-v\-v, --verbose]8;;\
report error messages (on by default if POSIXLY_CORRECT is
set)
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#readlink-z\-z, --zero]8;;\
end each output line with NUL, not newline
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/readlink#readlink--help\--help]8;;\ display this help and exit
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/readlink#readlink--version\--version]8;;\
output version information and exit
Written by Dmitry V. Levin.
Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report any translation bugs to
<https://translationproject.org/team/>
Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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), realpath(1), realpath(3)
Full documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/readlink>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) readlink invocation'
This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text
manipulation utilities) project. Information about the project
can be found at ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩. This page was obtained
from the tarball coreutils-9.11.tar.xz fetched from
⟨http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/⟩ on 2026-05-24. If you
discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page,
or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the
page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information
in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page),
send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
GNU coreutils 9.11 April 2026 READLINK(1)
Pages that refer to this page: basename(1), dirname(1), dpkg-realpath(1), realpath(1), unshare(1), mount(2), readlink(2), unshare(2), namespaces(7), mount(8)
|
HTML rendering created 2026-05-24 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH. |
|