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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-07-24 18:17:24 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-07-27 00:53:04 +0100
commit0bf77fc8ec08b766f44fba9f5958b06c1ef9ad74 (patch)
tree591a9b4317fa2a2321abf6493eb4d60381b92eb5
parent394e3ef72a97b5c7f505956ad49c734c1ff6d146 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-0bf77fc8ec08b766f44fba9f5958b06c1ef9ad74.tar.xz
doc: mention realpath in the readlink info
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Add realpath to the index, and also mention it in the readlink description so people searching for that functionality can easily make the connection.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 4599a276e..334d932de 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -9134,6 +9134,8 @@ Set the default SELinux security context to be used for created files.
@cindex displaying value of a symbolic link
@cindex canonical file name
@cindex canonicalize a file name
+@pindex realpath
+@findex realpath
@command{readlink} may work in one of two supported modes:
@@ -9213,6 +9215,9 @@ Report error messages.
The @command{readlink} utility first appeared in OpenBSD 2.1.
+There is a @command{realpath} command on some systems
+which operates like @command{readlink} in canonicalize mode.
+
@exitstatus