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.\" 3. 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.\" From: src/bin/pwd/pwd.1,v 1.11 2000/11/20 11:39:39 ru Exp 32.\" 33.Dd June 21, 2011 34.Dt REALPATH 1 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm realpath 38.Nd return resolved physical path 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Nm 41.Op Fl q 42.Op Ar path ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility uses the 47.Xr realpath 3 48function to resolve all symbolic links, extra 49.Ql / 50characters and references to 51.Pa /./ 52and 53.Pa /../ 54in 55.Ar path . 56If 57.Ar path 58is absent, the current working directory 59.Pq Sq Pa .\& 60is assumed. 61.Pp 62If 63.Fl q 64is specified, warnings will not be printed when 65.Xr realpath 3 66fails. 67.Sh EXIT STATUS 68.Ex -std 69.Sh EXAMPLES 70Show the physical path of the 71.Pa /dev/log 72directory silencing warnings if any: 73.Bd -literal -offset indent 74$ realpath -q /dev/log 75/var/run/log 76.Ed 77.Sh SEE ALSO 78.Xr realpath 3 79.Sh HISTORY 80The 81.Nm 82utility first appeared in 83.Fx 4.3 . 84