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authorKamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>2009-07-24 10:25:23 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-07-24 10:25:23 +0200
commit9f9e2d81d1cbb7a4d2761cde3265d399f7c274d5 (patch)
tree760c609192b9d823d99306d5187bf009091ebde4 /doc
parent571b7e3eee2d2a00fc0398fb1a14db0e5da83a20 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-9f9e2d81d1cbb7a4d2761cde3265d399f7c274d5.tar.xz
doc: improve readlink description here, too
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Update menus. Add @cindex entries.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 61361ab29..4599a276e 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Special file types
* mkdir invocation:: Make directories
* mkfifo invocation:: Make FIFOs (named pipes)
* mknod invocation:: Make block or character special files
-* readlink invocation:: Print the referent of a symbolic link
+* readlink invocation:: Print value of a symlink or canonical file name
* rmdir invocation:: Remove empty directories
* unlink invocation:: Remove files via unlink syscall
@@ -8683,7 +8683,7 @@ Besides directories, other special file types include named pipes
* mkdir invocation:: Make directories.
* mkfifo invocation:: Make FIFOs (named pipes).
* mknod invocation:: Make block or character special files.
-* readlink invocation:: Print the referent of a symbolic link.
+* readlink invocation:: Print value of a symlink or canonical file name.
* rmdir invocation:: Remove empty directories.
* unlink invocation:: Remove files via the unlink syscall
@end menu
@@ -9128,10 +9128,12 @@ Set the default SELinux security context to be used for created files.
@node readlink invocation
-@section @command{readlink}: Print the referent of a symbolic link
+@section @command{readlink}: Print value of a symlink or canonical file name
@pindex readlink
@cindex displaying value of a symbolic link
+@cindex canonical file name
+@cindex canonicalize a file name
@command{readlink} may work in one of two supported modes: