linux - Getting the full path to a file with "readlink -f" does NOT work on OSX?

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

On Linux (redhat/ubuntu/you name it), I can do this:

$readlink -f myfile.txt
/tmp/local/path/to/myfile.txt

On OSX (yosemite):

$ readlink -f eclipse-projects.xml 
readlink: illegal option -- f

Can someone tell me what's going on? What's the "equivalent" of -f on osx? (And why do people love to make things sooooo inconsistent?!)

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