How do i check where the symbolic links real location is?

[hawksbill]

Man page for readlink: https://www.lightnetics.com/post/5875

On ubuntu an ls just show it pointing to the alternatives, which in turn points to the current version of Maven being used.

$ ls -l /usr/bin//mvn
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 20 15:21 /usr/bin//mvn -> /etc/alternatives/mvn
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/mvn 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Mar 20 15:21 /etc/alternatives/mvn -> /usr/share/maven

There's a handy command to show where the links real location is. This command is also available on later versions Redhat/Centos.

$ readlink -f /usr/bin/mvn    
/usr/share/maven/bin/mvn