realpath - convert a path to an absolute path without symlinks — fish-shell 4.7.1 documentation

# realpath - convert a path to an absolute path without symlinks

## Synopsis

    realpath [OPTIONS] PATH

## Description

realpath follows all symbolic links encountered for the provided `PATH`, printing the absolute path resolved. fish provides a realpath-alike builtin intended to enrich systems where no such command is installed by default.

If a realpath command exists, that will be preferred. `builtin realpath` will explicitly use the fish implementation of realpath.

The following options are available:

-s or --no-symlinks

  Don’t resolve symlinks, only make paths absolute, squash multiple slashes and remove trailing slashes.

-h or --help

  Displays help about using this command.