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Comment by rezonant | Hacker News Reader

While readlink is the correct way to just read the link, I often just use `file ...` since it will also show the symbolic link destination (on GNU at least).

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ls -l also works. I often do

  ls -l /proc/`pidof foo`/fd

to see what files a taciturn process is working on

lsof is also good for seeing what files a process is using https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/08/lsof-command-examples/

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