NAME

realpath — print the canonicalized absolute pathname

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The realpath utility uses realpath(3) to resolve all symbolic links, extra “/” characters and references to /./ and /../ in file, and prints the absolute pathname on standard output.

The options are as follows:

-q

Do not print errors.

EXIT STATUS

The realpath utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

readlink(1), realpath(3)

HISTORY

The realpath utility first appeared in OpenBSD 7.1.