readlink

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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Returns the target of a symbolic link

Description

readlink(string $path): string|false

readlink() does the same as the readlink C function.

Returns the contents of the symbolic link path or false on error.

Note

The function fails if path is not a symlink, except on Windows, where the normalized path will be returned.

php

<?php

// output e.g. /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-xfs
echo readlink('/vmlinuz');

?>