From the ln man page: NAME ln - make links between files SYNOPSIS ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME (1st form) ln [OPTION]... TARGET (2nd form) ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form) ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET... (4th ...
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Using the link command to keep backups on another drive
I have a folder that contains a not so large amount of space called /data/backup.
I have been told that if I link that folder (/data/backup) to an even bigger folder area like /bigdata/backup for ...
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Symlink all files in a Folder to a new Folder
Ideally what I am seeking is a way to rename all my anime keeping original files intact without using extra data space
The solution I can think of is creating a duplicate folder path to another ...
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Symlink to current folder as absolute path without typing whole path
Symlinks are saved shortcuts for relative paths:
~/foo➤ ln -s . ~/bar/foo
~/foo➤ ls -l ~/bar
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 me me 1B 15 May 14:38 foo -> .
The file ~/bar/foo is a symlink to bars ...
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Is target in ln -s must be a full path file name?
I've tried to invoke "ln" in directory ~/download as this:
ln -s ./abc ~/abc [EDITED]
but it does't work.
I do "ls -al " in my home and get wrong link of abc.
ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME ...
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How can I get Total Commander to recognize Cygwin symlinks?
I love Total Commander. I love Cygwin. But they are not always friends. One thing that bugs me, is the way symlinks work in Cygwin. Suppose I do this:
$ ln -s my/path/to/nirvana budhism
And then ...
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Creating a symbolic link to a folder with ln command
I'm setting up the document root of my web server to point to a folder elsewhere on the disk. Should I be using a hard link, or a soft link, with the ln command?
Also, I'm having trouble getting the ...
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Does ln -s require you to be in a certain directory?
I want to create a simple symlink to a file.
It works perfectly if I run the command from inside the directory where I want the symlink to be created:
/path/to/link $ ln -s /path/to/file .
But if ...
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Auto rename symbolic link
I have a folder which contains many sub-folders which contains many images. I find it tedious to go into each folder to browse the images so I decided to create an empty folder and create symbolic ...
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Unix pipe: find | ln -s
I'm trying to symlink some php files using the following command:
find `pwd` -name "*.php" | ln -s * /home/frankv/www/bietroboter.de/symlinks
However, all the symlinks are broken because the little ...
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What is “ln -L” (--logical) for?
I can read in the ln man page:
-L, --logical
make hard links to symbolic link references
I read somewhere that ln -L could be used to re-link files that were deleted but which are ...
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Problem with permissions when syncing to sites directory
Is there a way to symbolically link a directory using ln to my ~/Sites/ directory on OS X so that the permissions are correct so it may be viewed in a web browser when I'm doing web development on a ...
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Symlink all files but copy certain extensions
I'm wondering how I'd be able to symlink all the files in a dir structure and then also copy files of a certain extension in that dir. I'm basically symlinking all files within /foo/a,b,c to ...
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Linker (ln) error: can't find certain files
I'm building something from source and I get the following output while running make:
...
CC libpromises_la-mod_outputs.lo
CC libpromises_la-unix.lo
CCLD libpromises.la
CC ...
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How would you link a number of files (e.g. *.so) by one-liner in Linux?
I need something like
ln -s /from/*.so
But ln doesn't allow such. So how would you do then?
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Listing All Linked Files
I can't seem to find a way to do this, so maybe it's not actually possible, but I was wondering if there was a way to list all files that link to a file.
For example.
touch a
ln a b
ln a c
I want ...
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How to find all soft links (symbolic links) in current directory?
Question relates to shell-scripting in bash.
How to check with a script which files within the current directory are soft links?
In case I have used the wrong term, when I say soft links, I am ...
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To see hardlinks by `ls`
I run
ln /a/A /b/B
I would like to see at the folder a where the file A points to by ls.
How can you see the actual hard link by ls?
