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When writing scripts for other shells, it can be confusing and annoying that our `man` function shadows other manual pages, for example `exec(1p)` from [Linux man-pages]. I almost never want to see the fish variant for such contended cases (which obviuosly don't include fish-specific commands like `string`, only widely-known shell builtins). For the contented cases like `exec`, the POSIX documentation is more substantial and useful, since it describes a (sub)set of languages widely used for scripting. Because of this I think we should stop overriding the system's man pages. Nowadays we offer `exec -h` as intuitive way to show the documentation for the fish-specific command (note that `help` is not a good replacement because it uses a web browser). Looking through the contended commands, it seems like for most of them, the fish version is not substantially different from the system version. A notable exception is `read` but I don't think it's a very important one. So I think we should can sacrifice a bit of the native fish-scripting experience in exchange for playing nicer with other shells. I think the latter is more important because scripting is not our focus, the way I see it. So maybe put our manpath at the end. In lieu of that, let's at least have `exec.rst` reference the system variant. [Linux man-pages]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Closes #10376
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.. _cmd-realpath:
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.. program::realpath
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realpath - convert a path to an absolute path without symlinks
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Synopsis
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--------
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.. synopsis::
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realpath [OPTIONS] PATH
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Description
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.. only:: builder_man
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NOTE: This page documents the fish builtin ``realpath``.
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To see the documentation on any non-fish versions, use ``command man realpath``.
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:program:`realpath` follows all symbolic links encountered for the provided :envvar:`PATH`, printing the absolute path resolved. :doc:`fish <fish>` provides a :command:`realpath`-alike builtin intended to enrich systems where no such command is installed by default.
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If a :command:`realpath` command exists, that will be preferred.
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``builtin realpath`` will explicitly use the fish implementation of :command:`realpath`.
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The following options are available:
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**-s** or **--no-symlinks**
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Don't resolve symlinks, only make paths absolute, squash multiple slashes and remove trailing slashes.
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**-h** or **--help**
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Displays help about using this command.
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