On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:52:09AM +0100, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: >> $ ln -sf pippo pippa >> $ ./busybox readlink pippa >> pippo >> $ ./busybox readlink -f pippa; echo $? >> 1 The big 'readlink -f /there/does_not_exist' does print the path (fully resolved "/there" plus all non-existing other components), though.