---
title: resolvingSymlinksInPath
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/nsstring/resolvingsymlinksinpath
---

# resolvingSymlinksInPath

A new string made from the receiver by resolving all symbolic links and standardizing path.

## Declaration

```swift
var resolvingSymlinksInPath: String { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion A new string made by resolving all symbolic links, then removing extraneous path components. For absolute paths, all symbolic links are guaranteed to be removed. For relative paths, symbolic links that can’t be resolved are left unresolved in the returned string. Returns self if an error occurs. Note that this method only works with file paths (not, for example, string representations of URLs).

## See Also

### Working with Paths

- [path(withComponents:)](foundation/nsstring/path(withcomponents:).md)
- [pathComponents](foundation/nsstring/pathcomponents.md)
- [completePath(into:caseSensitive:matchesInto:filterTypes:)](foundation/nsstring/completepath(into:casesensitive:matchesinto:filtertypes:).md)
- [fileSystemRepresentation](foundation/nsstring/filesystemrepresentation.md)
- [getFileSystemRepresentation(_:maxLength:)](foundation/nsstring/getfilesystemrepresentation(_:maxlength:).md)
- [isAbsolutePath](foundation/nsstring/isabsolutepath.md)
- [lastPathComponent](foundation/nsstring/lastpathcomponent.md)
- [pathExtension](foundation/nsstring/pathextension.md)
- [abbreviatingWithTildeInPath](foundation/nsstring/abbreviatingwithtildeinpath.md)
- [appendingPathComponent(_:)](foundation/nsstring/appendingpathcomponent(_:).md)
- [appendingPathExtension(_:)](foundation/nsstring/appendingpathextension(_:).md)
- [deletingLastPathComponent](foundation/nsstring/deletinglastpathcomponent.md)
- [deletingPathExtension](foundation/nsstring/deletingpathextension.md)
- [expandingTildeInPath](foundation/nsstring/expandingtildeinpath.md)
- [standardizingPath](foundation/nsstring/standardizingpath.md)