How to see full absolute path of a symlink

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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

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realpath isn t available on all linux flavors  but readlink should be   readlink -f symlinkName   The above should do the trick   Alternatively  if you don t have either of the above installed  you can do the following if you have python 2 6  or later  installed  python -c  import os path  print os path realpath  symlinkName

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Another way to see information is stat command that will show more information  Command stat    ssh on my machine display   File      home sumon  ssh    - gt      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  Birth  -   Hope this may help someone

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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

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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 - gt     1   system  readlink -f    1      Will display e g    thin repair - gt  home user workspace boot usr bin pdata tools thin restore - gt  home user workspace boot usr bin pdata tools thin rmap - gt  home user workspace boot usr bin pdata tools thin trim - gt  home user workspace boot usr bin pdata tools touch - gt  home user workspace boot usr bin busybox true - gt  home user workspace boot usr bin busybox

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realpath  lt path to the symlink file gt  should do the trick

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

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