what is a symlink linked to?

[Tim Hunter]

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.

 

[Sam Roberts]

Quoteing (e-mail address removed), 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

 

[Robert Klemme]

File.readlink