NAME

realpath — return resolved physical path

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The realpath utility uses the realpath(3) function to resolve all symbolic links, extra ‘/’ characters and references to /./ and /../ in path. If path is absent, the current working directory (‘.’) is assumed.

If -q is specified, warnings will not be printed when realpath(3) fails.

EXIT STATUS

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

EXAMPLES

Show the physical path of the /dev/log directory silencing warnings if any:

$ realpath -q /dev/log
/var/run/log

SEE ALSO

realpath(3)

HISTORY

The realpath utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.3.