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How Can I Tell Where A Symbolic Link is Pointing To?
Can somebody tell me how I can find out where a symbolic link is pointing to? I've searched and searched and the only thing I could find is how to create or delete one.


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re: symbolic link's target file
> How Can I Tell Where A Symbolic Link is Pointing To?

easy.

$ readlink (symlink)
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I tried entered readlink init.d and $readlink init.d and it keeps coming up command not found.


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Just do what Scorpions4ever suggested:
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ls -l init.d

I'm assuming init.d is the name of the symbolic link. If your version of Linux is like mine, in the last column, it'll show you were it's pointing to.
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