SYD-READ(1)

🎀 SYD-READ(1) — the group chat edition 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the syd-read page from the General Commands Manual ✨ this is the whole thing, top to bottom, no skips, no cap 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

syd-read — print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

syd-read [-hmnzBDFMNPRUX] [-c n] [-d dir] [-p pid] path...

like, that's the whole vibe check right there 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the syd-read utility prints resolved symbolic links or canonical file names 🔥

and default behaviour? by default the last component may exist, but all the other components must exist 👀 that's the rule, don't come for me, it's literally in the spec 💅

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🧚 OPTIONS 🧚

• -h — Display help. your little cry-for-help button, but make it documentation 🫶
• -c n — Cycle through the path list n times, useful for benchmarking. round and round and round, icon behaviour honestly ⭐
• -d dir — Resolve relative to the given directory 📁
• -p pid — Resolve from the perspective of the given process ID 👀 like, see it through their eyes
• -m — All components of the paths must exist, conflicts with -M. no missing pieces allowed, periodt 💀
• -M — Last component must not exist, other components must exist, conflicts with -m. the opposite vibe fr fr, one of them has to go 🙈
• -B — Resolve beneath the given directory, useful with -d dir. Implies -P, conflicts with -R ⬇️
• -R — Treat the given directory as root directory, useful with -d dir. Implies -P, conflicts with -B 👑
• -D — Do not traverse through .. components. we are NOT going backwards bestie 🚫
• -X — Do not traverse through mount points 🏔️
• -F — Do not follow symbolic links for any of the path components 🔗❌
• -N — Do not follow symbolic links for the last path component 🔗❌ but just the last one, quirky
• -P — Do not resolve /proc magic symbolic links ✨🚫
• -U — Resolve unsafe /proc magic symbolic links 😳 the spicy version
• -n — Do not output the trailing delimiter ✂️
• -z — End each output line with NUL not newline 🫧

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

syd(1), syd(2), syd(5), readlink(1), realpath(3)

syd homepage: https://sydbox.exherbo.org/ 🌈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Maintained by Ali Polatel. up-to-date sources can be found at https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox.git and on Radicle at rad:z38HCnbmcDegA2BMxuPaPRPMdp6wF. bugs/patches can be submitted to https://gitlab.exherbo.org/groups/sydbox/-/issues. discuss in #sydbox on Libera Chat or in #sydbox:mailstation.de on Matrix 💬

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that's the whole page, bestie — every flag, every conflict, every path, nothing dropped 💖 iykyk

okay that's a wrap on this one 🎀 this was the SYD-READ(1) page, dated 2026-09-01, and like… slay 🌟