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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/stat/stat.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/stat/stat.1 | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 b/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 index 0ae0b7c10d48..aeff9bac534c 100644 --- a/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 +++ b/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: stat.1,v 1.11 2003/05/08 13:07:10 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: stat.1,v 1.19 2006/10/07 10:41:50 elad Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ .Op Fl t Ar timefmt .Op Ar .Nm readlink -.Op Fl n +.Op Fl fn .Op Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION The @@ -60,9 +60,20 @@ displays information about the file descriptor for standard input. When invoked as .Nm readlink , only the target of the symbolic link is printed. -If the given argument is not a symbolic link, +If the given argument is not a symbolic link and the +.Fl f +option is not specified, .Nm readlink will print nothing and exit with an error. +If the +.Fl f +option is specified, the output is canonicalized by following every symlink +in every component of the given path recursively. +.Nm readlink +will resolve both absolute and relative paths, and return the absolute pathname +corresponding to +.Ar file . +In this case, the argument does not need to be a symbolic link. .Pp The information displayed is obtained by calling .Xr lstat 2 @@ -374,13 +385,15 @@ User defined flags for Inode generation number. .El .Pp -The following four field specifiers are not drawn directly from the +The following five field specifiers are not drawn directly from the data in .Vt "struct stat" , but are: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm N The name of the file. +.It Cm R +The absolute pathname corresponding to the file. .It Cm T The file type, either as in .Nm ls Fl F |