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                     33: .Dd August 18, 1997
                     34: .Dt READLINK 1
                     35: .Os
                     36: .Sh NAME
                     37: .Nm readlink
                     38: .Nd display target of symbolic link on standard output
                     39: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     40: .Nm readlink
1.3       niklas     41: .Op Fl fn
1.1       kstailey   42: .Ar file
                     43: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     44: The
1.6       aaron      45: .Nm
1.1       kstailey   46: utility when invoked with the pathname of a symbolic link as its
                     47: argument dereferences the symbolic link and prints the name of target
1.6       aaron      48: on standard output.
1.9     ! otto       49: If the
        !            50: .Fl f
        !            51: option is not specified and
        !            52: .Nm
        !            53: is invoked with an argument other
1.6       aaron      54: than the pathname of a symbolic link, it exits with a nonzero exit
1.4       aaron      55: code without printing anything.
1.1       kstailey   56: .Pp
1.5       aaron      57: The options are as follows:
1.7       aaron      58: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.3       niklas     59: .It Fl f
                     60: Canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given
                     61: path recursively.
1.9     ! otto       62: .Nm
        !            63: will resolve both absolute and relative paths and
        !            64: return the absolute pathname corresponding to
        !            65: .Ar file .
        !            66: The argument does not need to be a symbolic link.
1.1       kstailey   67: .It Fl n
                     68: Do not print a trailing newline character.
                     69: .El
                     70: .Pp
                     71: The
1.6       aaron      72: .Nm
1.4       aaron      73: utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
1.1       kstailey   74: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.9     ! otto       75: .Xr readlink 2 ,
        !            76: .Xr realpath 2
1.1       kstailey   77: .Sh HISTORY
                     78: The
1.6       aaron      79: .Nm
1.2       kstailey   80: utility first appeared in
1.4       aaron      81: .Ox 2.1 .