Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

MBCS, MIET, Member ACM, Member IEEE

Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications

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Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom

KPSEREADLINK

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 4 January 1998
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kpsereadlink - print contents of symbolic link

kpsereadlink file

If file is a symbolic link, print its contents (what it links to), and exit successfully. Exit with a failure otherwise.

On systems that do not support symbolic links, kpsereadlink will always fail.

kpsereadlink accepts the following additional options:

for client (none)

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