NAME

realpath – print the resolved path  

SYNOPSIS

realpath [OPTION]… FILE…  

DESCRIPTION

Print the resolved absolute file name; all but the last component must exist

-e, –canonicalize-existing
all components of the path must exist
-m, –canonicalize-missing
no components of the path need exist
-L, –logical
resolve ‘..’ components before symlinks
-P, –physical
resolve symlinks as encountered (default)
-q, –quiet
suppress most error messages
–relative-to=FILE
print the resolved path relative to FILE
–relative-base=FILE
print absolute paths unless paths below FILE
-s, –strip, –no-symlinks
don’t expand symlinks
-z, –zero
end each output line with NUL, not newline
–help
display this help and exit
–version
output version information and exit
 

AUTHOR

Written by Padraig Brady.  

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <>
Report realpath translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.  

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