Sys.readlink: Read File Symbolic Links
In robertzk/monadicbase: The R Base Package
Description
Usage
Arguments
Value
See Also
Description
Find out if a file path is a symbolic link, and if so what it is
linked to, via the system call readlink.
Symbolic links are a POSIX concept, not implemented on Windows but for
most filesystems on Unix-alikes.
Usage
1
Sys.readlink(paths)
Arguments
paths
character vector of file paths. Tilde expansion is done:
see path.expand.
Value
A character vector of the same length as paths. The
entries are the path of the file linked to, "" if the path is
not a symbolic link, and NA if there is an error (e.g., the
path does not exist).
On platforms without the readlink system call, all elements are
"".
See Also
file.symlink for the creation of symbolic links (and
their Windows analogues), file.info
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Description Usage Arguments Value See Also
Description
Find out if a file path is a symbolic link, and if so what it is
linked to, via the system call readlink.
Symbolic links are a POSIX concept, not implemented on Windows but for most filesystems on Unix-alikes.
Usage
1 | Sys.readlink(paths)
|
Arguments
paths |
character vector of file paths. Tilde expansion is done:
see |
Value
A character vector of the same length as paths. The
entries are the path of the file linked to, "" if the path is
not a symbolic link, and NA if there is an error (e.g., the
path does not exist).
On platforms without the readlink system call, all elements are
"".
See Also
file.symlink for the creation of symbolic links (and
their Windows analogues), file.info
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