realpath
Display the canonical absolute pathname (POSIX, toybox)
Syntax:
realpath [-eLmPqsz] [--relative-base dir] [-R dir] file...
Runs on:
QNX OS
Options:
- -e
- Display the canonical path to existing entry (fails if missing).
- -L
- Display logical path (resolve
..
components before symlinks). - -m
- Ignore missing entries, show where it would be.
- -P
- Display physical path (default).
- -q
- Be quiet (no error messages).
- -R dir
- Show ../path relative to dir directory (--relative-to).
- ---relative-base dir
- Trim off the prefix if the path is under the dir directory.
- -s
- Don't expand symlinks.
- -z
- Use NUL character instead of a newline character.
- file
- The pathname of a file to use as input.
Description:
This utility is provided as part of the toybox package. For information on how to enable it, see toybox.
Contributing author:
Rob Landley and the toybox project (see https://landley.net/toybox/).
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