<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>readlink -- readlink fn</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_mkdir.html">next</a> | <a href="_link__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="_mkdir.html">forward</a> | <a href="_link__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">backward</a> | <a href="_file_spmanipulation.html">up</a> | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div><a href="index.html" title="">Macaulay2Doc</a> > <a href="___The_sp__Macaulay2_splanguage.html" title="">The Macaulay2 language</a> > <a href="_file_spmanipulation.html" title="Unix file manipulation functions">file manipulation</a> > <a href="_readlink.html" title="readlink fn">readlink</a></div> <hr/> <div><h1>readlink -- readlink fn</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>read the contents of a symbolic link</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>fn</tt>, <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span>, a filename or path to a file</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___Boolean.html">Boolean value</a></span>, whether <tt>fn</tt> is the path to a symbolic link</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : p = temporaryFileName () o1 = /tmp/M2-10908-1</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : symlinkFile ("foo", p)</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : readlink p o3 = foo</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : removeFile p</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>