tldr/pages/common/readlink.md

readlink

Follow symlinks and get symlink information. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/readlink-invocation.html.

• 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}}