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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index fa0562626..0bfbd5689 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -9204,7 +9204,8 @@ The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @opindex --canonicalize Activate canonicalize mode. If any component of the file name except the last one is missing or unavailable, -@command{readlink} produces no output and exits with a nonzero exit code. +@command{readlink} produces no output and exits with a nonzero exit +code. A trailing slash is ignored. @item -e @itemx --canonicalize-existing @@ -9212,7 +9213,8 @@ If any component of the file name except the last one is missing or unavailable, @opindex --canonicalize-existing Activate canonicalize mode. If any component is missing or unavailable, @command{readlink} produces -no output and exits with a nonzero exit code. +no output and exits with a nonzero exit code. A trailing slash +requires that the name resolve to a directory. @item -m @itemx --canonicalize-missing |