How to see full symlink path

Question

When I\'m using ls -la symlinkName or stat symlinkName not all the path is displayed (e.g ../../../one/two/file.txt)

What is

Answer 1

You can use awk with a system call readlink to get the equivalent of an ls output with full symlink paths. For example:

ls | awk '{printf("%s ->", $1); system("readlink -f " $1)}'

Will display e.g.

thin_repair ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/pdata_tools
thin_restore ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/pdata_tools
thin_rmap ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/pdata_tools
thin_trim ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/pdata_tools
touch ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/busybox
true ->/home/user/workspace/boot/usr/bin/busybox