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.TH READLINK "1" "March 2012" "GNU coreutils 8.16" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
readlink \- print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B readlink
[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
Print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-canonicalize\fR
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given name recursively;
all but the last component must exist
.TP
\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-canonicalize\-existing\fR
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given name recursively,
all components must exist
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-canonicalize\-missing\fR
canonicalize by following every symlink in
every component of the given name recursively,
without requirements on components existence
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-no\-newline\fR
do not output the trailing newline
.HP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR,
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR
suppress most error messages
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
report error messages
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Dmitry V. Levin.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report readlink bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
.br
Report readlink translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
=
Availability	file/gnu-coreutils
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Stability	Uncommitted
.TE 
.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
readlink(2)
.PP
The full documentation for
.B readlink
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B readlink
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info coreutils \(aqreadlink invocation\(aq
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.


.SH NOTES

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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/coreutils-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/.