What is a symlink linked to?

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Is there a method that, given a symlink, returns what the symlink is
linked to? Obviously ls(1) has this information, and stat(1), but I’m
not seeing a way to get it in Ruby.

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Quoteing cyclists@nc.rr.com, on Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:18:10PM +0900:

Is there a method that, given a symlink, returns what the symlink is
linked to? Obviously ls(1) has this information, and stat(1), but I’m

There is a stat utility?

readlink(2) give this info.

not seeing a way to get it in Ruby.

$ ri File.readlink
--------------------------------------------------------- File::readlink
File.readlink( fileName ) → fileName

··· 
 Returns the given symbolic link as a string. Not available on all
 platforms.
    File.symlink("testfile", "link2test")   #=> 0
    File.readlink("link2test")              #=> "testfile"
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File.readlink

“Tim Hunter” cyclists@nc.rr.com schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Is there a method that, given a symlink, returns what the symlink is
linked to? Obviously ls(1) has this information, and stat(1), but I’m
not seeing a way to get it in Ruby.