print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names NAME readlink - print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names SYNOPSIS readlink [ OPTION ]... F...read value of a symbolic link NAME readlink, readlinkat - read value of a symbolic link LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc , -lc ) SYN...read value of a symbolic link NAME readlink, readlinkat - read value of a symbolic link LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc , -lc ) SYN......le, the file to which the link refers. (The contents of a symbolic link can be read using readlink (2).) In other words, a symbolic link is a pointer to another name, and not to…...oreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> SEE ALSO readlink (1), readlink (2), realpath (3) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/softwa…...y terminated (typically by calling pthread_exit (3)). Permission to dereference or read ( readlink (2)) this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_READ_F…...be used by other dpkg helpers, or by maintainer scripts instead of using realpath (1) or readlink (1) to canonicalize pathnames, as these latter commands do not support canonica…...laying the inode number of the time namespace of a shell in the initial time namespace: $ readlink /proc/$$/ns/time time:[4026531834] Continuing in the initial time namespace, w…...kets, the entries will be symbolic links whose content is the file type with the inode. A readlink (2) call on this file returns a string in the format: type:[inode] For example…...y terminated (typically by calling pthread_exit (3)). Permission to dereference or read ( readlink (2)) this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_READ_F…...is a string containing the namespace type and inode number as in the following example: $ readlink /proc/$$/ns/uts uts:[4026531838] The symbolic links in this subdirectory are a…...dded in POSIX.1-2008 TC1 pthread_sigmask (3) Added in POSIX.1-2008 TC1 raise (3) read (2) readlink (2) readlinkat (2) Added in POSIX.1-2008 recv (2) recvfrom (2) recvmsg (2) ren…...ort any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> SEE ALSO basename (1), readlink (1) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dirname> or ava…...e Attribute Value canonicalize_file_name () Thread safety MT-Safe STANDARDS GNU. SEE ALSO readlink (2), realpath (3)...port any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> SEE ALSO dirname (1), readlink (1) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/basename> or av…..._show /proc/23235/ns/uts u Device/Inode of owning user namespace is: [0,3] / 4026532448 $ readlink /proc/23235/ns/user user:[4026532448] Then show that the parent of the new use…..._show /proc/23235/ns/uts u Device/Inode of owning user namespace is: [0,3] / 4026532448 $ readlink /proc/23235/ns/user user:[4026532448] Then show that the parent of the new use…...y terminated (typically by calling pthread_exit (3)). Permission to dereference or read ( readlink (2)) this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_READ_F…...d verifying that the original shell and the new shell are in separate mount namespaces: $ readlink /proc/$$/ns/mnt mnt:[4026531840] $ sudo ./unshare -m /bin/bash # readlink /pro…...heads/newbranch .git/HEAD , and when we wanted to find out which branch we are on, we did readlink .git/HEAD . But symbolic links are not entirely portable, so they are now depr…