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authorkstailey <kstailey@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-08-18 20:30:03 +0000
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+.\" $OpenBSD: readlink.1,v 1.1 1997/08/18 20:30:02 kstailey Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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+.Dd August 18, 1997
+.Dt READLINK 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm readlink
+.Nd display target of symbolic link on standard output
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm readlink
+.Op Fl n
+.Ar file
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm readlink
+utility when invoked with the pathname of a symbolic link as its
+argument dereferences the symbolic link and prints the name of target
+on standard output. If readlink is invoked with an argument other
+than the pathname of a symbolic link it exits with a non-zero exit
+code and without printing anything.
+.Pp
+The following option is available:
+.Bl -tag -width flag
+.It Fl n
+Do not print a trailing newline character.
+.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm readlink
+utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr readlink 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm readlink
+utility first appeared in OpenBSD 2.1