kpsereadlink(1)

kpsereadlink1

Print contents of symbolic link

Usage

kpsereadlink file

Overview

If file is a symbolic link, print its contents (what it links to), and exit successfully. Exit with a failure otherwise.

On systems that do not support symbolic links, kpsereadlink will always fail.

Options

kpsereadlink accepts the following options:

--help

Print help message and exit.

--version

Print version information and exit.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

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