.. _cmd-realpath:

realpath - convert a path to an absolute path without symlinks
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Synopsis
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::

    realpath PATH

Description
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``realpath`` resolves a path to its absolute path.

fish provides a ``realpath`` builtin as a fallback for systems where there is no ``realpath`` command. fish's implementation always resolves its first argument, and does not support any options.

If the operation fails, an error will be reported.