1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 3.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 6.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)pwd.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 33.\" From: src/bin/pwd/pwd.1,v 1.11 2000/11/20 11:39:39 ru Exp 34.\" $FreeBSD$ 35.\" 36.Dd November 24, 2000 37.Dt REALPATH 1 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm realpath 41.Nd return resolved physical path 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl q 45.Ar path 46.Op Ar ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50utility uses the 51.Xr realpath 3 52function to resolve all symbolic links, extra 53.Ql / 54characters and references to 55.Pa /./ 56and 57.Pa /../ 58in 59.Ar path . 60.Pp 61If 62.Fl q 63is specified, warnings will not be printed when 64.Xr realpath 3 65fails. 66.Sh EXIT STATUS 67.Ex -std 68.Sh SEE ALSO 69.Xr realpath 3 70.Sh HISTORY 71The 72.Nm 73utility first appeared in 74.Fx 4.3 . 75