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instance method

Pathname#symlink?

() -> untyped

symlink? → true or false

# File tmp/rubies/ruby-4.1.0-preview1/pathname_builtin.rb, line 2686
def symlink?() FileTest.symlink?(@path) end

Returns whether the entry at the path in self is a symbolic link:

Example

file_pn = Pathname('/etc/passwd')
link_pn = Pathname('/tmp/foo')
link_pn.make_symlink(file_pn)
file_pn.symlink? # => false
link_pn.symlink? # => true
link_pn.delete   # Clean up.

See also #sub_ext #sysopen #sub #to_path also in 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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