How to follow symbolic links on disk?

AbsoluteFileName will resolve symbolic links.

Example on my machine:

AbsoluteFileName["/Library/TeX/texbin"]
(* "/usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-darwin" *)

After a bit more fiddling around I found FileInformation, an undocumented function which takes a file name as an argument.

FileInformation[FindFile["myPackage"]]` returns

{AbsoluteFileName->/absolute/path/to/myPackage.wl,
 BlockCount->24,
 BlockSize->4096,
 ByteCount->8474,
 CreationDate->Thu 17 Oct 2019 11:06:04GMT-4.,
 Device->16777220,
 DirectoryName->$HOME/Library/Mathematica/Applications,
 FileAttributes->Missing[NotAvailable],
 FileBaseName->myPackage,FileExtension->wl,
 FileName->$HOME/Library/Mathematica/Applications/myPackage.wl,
 FileType->File,
 GID->20,
 GroupName->Missing[NotAvailable],
 Inode->28731823,
 LastAccessDate->Wed 23 Oct 2019 18:16:13GMT-4.,
 LastModificationDate->Wed 23 Oct 2019 18:16:10GMT-4.,
 LinkCount->1,
 OwnerName->Missing[NotAvailable],
 RawByteCount->12288,
 SetGroupID->False,
 SetUserID->False,
 Sticky->False,
 UID->501,
 UnixPermissionsCode->0660,
 UnixPermissionsString->-rw-rw----}

where I replaced my home directory with $HOME and the true readlink path with /absolute/path/to/myPackage.wl for privacy. CreationDate, LastAccessDate, and LastModificationDate are DateObjects, all the left-hand sides of the rules are "strings", and the right-hand sides are integers, strings, etc.

SO, what I was looking for was "AbsoluteFileName"/.FileInformation[FindFile["myPackage"]]`