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In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of realpath and readlink commands that are similar (if not same) in the sense that they display resolved symbolic links in output.

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By: Marius at: 2018-09-29 09:09:04
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If your are interessted to learn about the true nature of a "file"/"link" you may wanne change to this tool : 

# pathdiscover /home/wordpress/jetpack/ '/home/wordpress/jetpack/' translates to '/opt/root/home/wordpress/jetpack' 4096 Bytes wordpress/wordpress drwxr-xr-x : jetpack ( directory ) 4096 Bytes wordpress/services drwxr-x--- : wordpress ( directory ) 4096 Bytes root/root drwxr-xr-x : home ( directory ) 4096 Bytes root/root drwxr-xr-x : root ( directory ) 4096 Bytes root/root drwxr-xr-x : opt ( directory )

It will make a lot of informations available, that are usefull for debugging problems with links.

Source: https://github.com/Cyborgscode/pathdiscovery/

And building it is so easy: gcc pathdiscover.c  -o pathdiscover

no nmp, ruby, python, java, frameworks of anykind involved ;)