REALPATH(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 7 versions
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💖 REALPATH(1) — like, the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to realpath, a General Commands Manual entry from the uutils coreutils girlies. She prints the resolved path. That's her whole thing. She's an icon, she's a legend, and honestly she eats every single time. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

realpath — Print the resolved path 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

realpath [OPTION]... FILE...

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Print the resolved path. That's it, that's the tweet. Give her some files, she gives you back the real, canonical, no-more-games path. 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • -q, --quiet — shhh bestie 🤫 no warnings for invalid paths. Do not print them. None. Zero. Silence, gorgeous.
  • -s, --strip — only strip the '.' and '..' components, but do NOT resolve symbolic links. She's just tidying, not snooping. 🧹
  • -z, --zero — separate output filenames with \0 instead of newline. Null-terminated realness fr fr. 🍓
  • -L, --logical — resolve '..' components before symlinks. Order matters, it's giving precedence. ✨
  • -P, --physical — resolve symlinks as encountered. This is the default, periodt. 👑
  • -E, --canonicalize — all but the last component must exist. Also the default. She keeps it strict, but only mostly. 🙈
  • -e, --canonicalize-existing — canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively, and all components must exist. Every. Single. One. No pretending. 💀
  • -m, --canonicalize-missing — canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively, without requirements on components existence. Manifest it, whether it's there or not. 🦋
  • --relative-to <DIR> — print the resolved path relative to DIR. Relativity, but make it paths. 🌈
  • --relative-base <DIR> — print absolute paths unless paths below DIR. Absolute by default, chill below the base. 💜
  • -h, --help — Print help. Your girl comes with a manual, obviously. 📖
  • -V, --version — Print version. She'll tell you exactly who she is. ⭐
  • <files> — the files. The actual files. The whole point. 🎀

🌟 VERSION 🌟

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Display the absolute path for a file or directory:

realpath path/to/file_or_directory

Require all path components to exist:

realpath [-e|--canonicalize-existing] path/to/file_or_directory

Resolve .. components before symlinks:

realpath [-L|--logical] path/to/file_or_directory

Disable symlink expansion:

realpath [-s|--no-symlinks] path/to/file_or_directory

Suppress error messages:

realpath [-q|--quiet] path/to/file_or_directory
🎀 ngl, the examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. And please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. It's a growing girl, okay?? 😭

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💅✨

this has been the REALPATH(1) page from the uutils coreutils, dated 2026-09-25 — yeah she's got a timestamp and she's proud of it. now go resolve some paths, main character. 💖🦋🌸

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