realpath Returns canonicalized absolute pathname &reftitle.description; stringrealpath stringpath realpath expands all symbolic links and resolves references to '/./', '/../' and extra '/' characters in the input path. and return the canonicalized absolute pathname. &reftitle.parameters; path The path being checked. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the canonicalized absolute pathname on success. The resulting path will have no symbolic link, '/./' or '/../' components. realpath returns &false; on failure, e.g. if the file does not exist. On BSD systems realpath doesn't fail if only the last path component doesn't exist, while other systems will return &false;. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &example.outputs; On windows realpath will change unix style paths to windows style. ]]> &example.outputs; &reftitle.seealso; basename dirname pathinfo