kpsereadlink

print contents of symbolic link

Synopsis

kpsereadlink file

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description

If file is a symbolic link, print its contents (what it links to), and exit successfully. Exit with a failure otherwise.

On systems that do not support symbolic links, kpsereadlink will always fail.

options

kpsereadlink accepts the following options:

--help

Print help message and exit.

--version

Print version information and exit.

see also

readlink