From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2003-06-30T22:33:12+09:00
Subject: Re: what is a symlink linked to?

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"