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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 5f8fad774..0646f8242 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -9737,20 +9737,20 @@ Set the default SELinux security context to be used for created files. @item Readlink mode -@command{readlink} outputs the value of the given symbolic link. +@command{readlink} outputs the value of the given symbolic links. If @command{readlink} is invoked with an argument other than the name of a symbolic link, it produces no output and exits with a nonzero exit code. @item Canonicalize mode -@command{readlink} outputs the absolute name of the given file which contains +@command{readlink} outputs the absolute name of the given files which contain no @file{.}, @file{..} components nor any repeated separators (@file{/}) or symbolic links. @end table @example -readlink [@var{option}] @var{file} +readlink [@var{option}]@dots{} @var{file}@dots{} @end example By default, @command{readlink} operates in readlink mode. @@ -9789,7 +9789,8 @@ as a directory. @itemx --no-newline @opindex -n @opindex --no-newline -Do not output the trailing newline. +Do not print the output delimiter, when a single @var{file} is specified. +Print a warning if specified along with multiple @var{file}s. @item -s @itemx -q @@ -9807,6 +9808,12 @@ Suppress most error messages. @opindex --verbose Report error messages. +@item -z +@itemx --zero +@opindex -z +@opindex --zero +Separate output items with @sc{nul} characters. + @end table The @command{readlink} utility first appeared in OpenBSD 2.1. |