Update: derp, just use readlink, derp. XD

In the #iDontKnowWhyIdidntWriteThisYearsAgo category:

~ $ type deref
deref is a function
deref () 
{ 
    stat -c "%N" "$*" | cut -f4 -d\'
}
~ $ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
~ $ deref $(which gcc)
gcc-14
~ $ deref $(which $(deref $(which gcc)))
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-14