readlinkSync

external fun readlinkSync(path: PathLike, options: EncodingOption = definedExternally): String(source)

Returns the symbolic link's string value.

See the POSIX readlink(2) documentation for more details.

The optional options argument can be a string specifying an encoding, or an object with an encoding property specifying the character encoding to use for the link path returned. If the encoding is set to 'buffer', the link path returned will be passed as a Buffer object.

Since

v0.1.31


external fun readlinkSync(path: PathLike, options: BufferEncodingOption): Buffer(source)
external fun readlinkSync(path: PathLike): String(source)

Synchronous readlink(2) - read value of a symbolic link.

Parameters

path

A path to a file. If a URL is provided, it must use the file: protocol.

options

The encoding (or an object specifying the encoding), used as the encoding of the result. If not provided, 'utf8' is used.