How do I get the target of a symlink?

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Ruby Problem Overview

I have a string containing the file system path to an existing symlink. I want to get the path that this link points to.

Basically I want the same that I'd get through this bit of hackery:

s = "path/to/existing/symlink"
`ls -ld #{s}`.scan(/-> (.+)/).flatten.last

but I want to do it without shelling out.

Ruby Solutions

Solution 1 - Ruby

I think readlink is what you are looking for:

File.readlink("path/to/symlink")

Solution 2 - Ruby

require 'pathname'
Pathname.new("symlink").realpath

or readlink as others said

Solution 3 - Ruby

Or you can try:

File.realpath("symlink_path")

Which works for both symlinks and normal files.

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