Bash Command to Get Absolute Path for a File

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If you are inside a directory location in Terminal and you want to get the absolute path of a particular file then you can make use of the readlink command with -f or --canonicalize flag.


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readlink - print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names

man page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/readlink.1.html


Example:

bash-3.2$ readlink -f cert.pem 

/Users/c2ctech/cert.pem
How to Get Absolute Path of a file using bash

As you can see, the output is the absolute file path with the file name.

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If you are on macOS then you can also make use of the realpath command.

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