readlink Returns the target of a symbolic link &reftitle.description; stringfalsereadlink stringpath readlink does the same as the readlink C function. &reftitle.parameters; path The symbolic link path. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the contents of the symbolic link path or &false; on error. The function fails if path is not a symlink, except on Windows, where the normalized path will be returned. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &reftitle.seealso; is_link symlink linkinfo