readlink
Reads the contents of the symbolic link referred to by path
. The callback gets two arguments (err, linkString)
.
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 passed to the callback. If the encoding
is set to 'buffer'
, the link path returned will be passed as a Buffer
object.
Since
v0.1.31
Asynchronous readlink(2) - read value of a symbolic link.
Parameters
A path to a file. If a URL is provided, it must use the file:
protocol.
The encoding (or an object specifying the encoding), used as the encoding of the result. If not provided, 'utf8'
is used.
Asynchronous readlink(2) - read value of a symbolic link.
Parameters
A path to a file. If a URL is provided, it must use the file:
protocol.
Reads the contents of the symbolic link referred to by path
. See the POSIX readlink(2)
documentation for more detail. The promise is fulfilled with thelinkString
upon success.
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
v10.0.0
Return
Fulfills with the linkString
upon success.