viewing the full path of the linked file

[H.Becker]

-m is available at least with 'readlink (GNU coreutils) 6.10'

hb:~/sub/subsub$ readlink -m symlink
/home/hartmut/sub/file
hb:~/sub/subsub$

That may be what you are looking for. But, it's not the full path. -m is explained as "canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively, without requirements on components existence"

hb:~/sub/subsub$ echo "`pwd`/`readlink symlink`"
/home/hartmut/sub/subsub/../detour/../file

[Dennis Handly]

>I am not able to see the full path of the linked file.

Why do you care?
Symlinks to relative paths are good, absolute paths are bad. Think of having them over an NFS mount.

The absolute path would be $PWD/../../bin/ar.