.</p>
<h2 id="if-path-is-a-link">If path is a link</h2>
<p>If <a href="dart-io/File/path.html">path</a> is a symbolic link, rather than a file,
then the methods of File operate on the ultimate target of the
link, except for <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity/delete.html">delete</a> and <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity/deleteSync.html">deleteSync</a>, which operate on
the link.</p>
<h2 id="read-from-a-file">Read from a file</h2>
<p>The following code sample reads the entire contents from a file as a string
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