[linux] How to see full absolute path of a symlink

When I'm using ls -la symlinkName or stat symlinkName not all the path is displayed (e.g ../../../one/two/file.txt)

What is the linux command that reveals the full path?

Another way to see information is stat command that will show more information. Command stat ~/.ssh on my machine display

File: ‘/home/sumon/.ssh’ -> ‘/home/sumon/ssh-keys/.ssh.personal’
  Size: 34          Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: 801h/2049d  Inode: 25297409    Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: ( 1000/   sumon)   Gid: ( 1000/   sumon)
Access: 2017-09-26 16:41:18.985423932 +0600
Modify: 2017-09-25 15:48:07.880104043 +0600
Change: 2017-09-25 15:48:07.880104043 +0600
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Hope this may help someone.

realpath <path to the symlink file> should do the trick.

unix flavors -> ll symLinkName

OSX -> readlink symLinkName

Difference is 1st way would display the sym link path in a blinking way and 2nd way would just echo it out on the console.

You can use awk with a system call readlink to get the equivalent of an ls output with full symlink paths. For example:

ls | awk '{printf("%s ->", $1); system("readlink -f " $1)}'

Will display e.g.

thin_repair ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/pdata_tools
thin_restore ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/pdata_tools
thin_rmap ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/pdata_tools
thin_trim ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/pdata_tools
touch ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/busybox
true ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/busybox