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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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Computer\Apple iPhone\Internal Storage\DCIM - how to use a regular directory [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
UNC Path to photos on iPhone on Windows XP
The path to an iPhone's pictures when connected to Win7 is:
Computer\Apple iPhone\Internal Storage\DCIM
This is a problem ...
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Following a remote symbolic link via Windows Shares
In Windows 7 X64 I have a directory C:\shares\ Which contains 2 shared folders, each of these contains a couple of hundred symlinks, mapping the contents of 4 folders spread across 4 drives.
So ...
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Remove a folder inside a symlink
Having a symlink:
ln -s /var/www /media/Disk2/dropbox/www
How can I remove a folder from the symlink located at /media/Disk2/dropbox/www/test without afecting the main folder?
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Windows NFS client, remove and create the same file
I use Windows 7 and Win client for nfs. I mount nfs drive and make symbolic link to this drive according to this Any way to symlink an NFS folder on a NTFS drive on Windows 7?
I have a problem when I ...
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Does rm -f follow symbolic links?
I have a directory like this:
$ ls -l
total 899166
drwxr-xr-x 12 me scicomp 324 Jan 24 13:47 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 me scicomp 84188 Jan 24 13:47 lod-thin-1.000000-0.010000-0.030000.rda
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How do I move a linked file on Unix?
I have a bunch of files in one directory and links to each one of those files in another directory. So ls -l looks something like this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rembol rembol 89 Jan 25 10:00 copyright.txt ...
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How to make symbolic link independant of drive letter
I have partitions set up on my windows 7 machine such that one drive holds all my personal documents, while the C drive is meant to hold everything else. To help the two work together, I made some ...
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Possible to “move Windows XP” to data partition using following plan and symbolic links?
Background: I have Windows XP and Windows 7 on the same machine, on different partitions. Thus, I can perform operations on either OS while said OS is not running.
Terminology: "XP:", "7:" and ...
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MacOS: How to “cd” into a symlink?
I have a folder "abc". I create a symlink: ln -s abc abclink. but then, whan I type, cd abclink it says "No such file or directory".
I can see the link, it has "lrwxr-xr-x" permissions, why doesn't ...
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Windows 7 Symlink to network drive root
My Ubuntu server provides storage to my Windows 7 workstation through the use of SMB and network drives. One symlink currently links from a network drive to my iTunes library folder. Within that ...
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Symbolic linking and shrinking available space
I symbolically linked two drives across a folder located in the program files folder of the C:\ directory. This folder is linked to a much larger/slower HDD. Windows is installed on a small SSD ...
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How to mass remove symbolic links in Windows (amongs regular files that share similar name in many folders)?
Is there anyway to quickly remove many symbolic links in many folders that contains many other files. E.g some command in command prompt (be able to delete all slink created from day XX for example)?
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Symbolic Links to an Existing Folder
I'm trying to synchronize two folders on two different computers to my Dropbox folder on their respective machines. So for example:
XP:
C:\Dev -> C:\Documents and Settings\username\Dropbox\Dev
OSX:
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How do I alias a Homebrew installed Ruby 1.9 gem binary in /usr/local/bin?
Homebrew's Ruby 1.9 ships with rubygems. Doing gem install ... installs files and binaries into some long-winded path. For example, bundler is installed at:
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Windows 7 cross-volume symlinks affecting recycle bin
Related to this question but not identical.
Scenario:
C:\Folder\Symlink\ is a symlink pointing to E:\Folder\Folder\Target\
Problem:
Deleting a file through C:\Folder\Symlink\* bypasses the Recycle ...
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Scenario - NTFS Symbolic Link or Junction?
Differences
Symbolic Link - Relative or absolute paths, supports UNC shares and file or directory targets
Junction - Absolute, local directory targets only
Scenario
Let's assume we're creating a ...
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How to filter repeated symbolic links
I have different symbolic links aliases for a set of files (beware, some symbolic links might point to other symbolic links in the same directory) and I would like to get a list of unique files they ...
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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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Batch File - Delete Shortcut From ALLUSERS Desktop
In Vista/7, if I try to delete a shortcut using the following command -:
del "%allusersprofile%\Desktop\MyShortcut.lnk"
...Windows sees this folder as empty and doesn't delete the file.
The ...
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How do you make a symbolic link with a relative path using mklink?
This web page implies that it is possible to make symbolic links with relative paths using mklink.
I have tried all sorts of ways to make relative symbolic links, but I always end up with an absolute ...
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Aren't egrep, fgrep supposed to be aliases to grep?
Since egrep is essentially grep -E I would expect it to be an alias that calls grep with that option. However on my system
file `which egrep`
shows it is an executable. Also egrep as an alias only ...
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Unable to log into Windows 7 after moving users folder via symlink
I'm unable to log into Windows 7 after moving the Users folder via symlink. I used the command prompt in System Recovery to move the folder.
F:\ is my SSD which I want to move from, while C:\ Is the ...
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How can I create a directory symbolic link on Windows Server 2003?
I'm trying to create a directory symbolic link under Windows Server 2003 but I'm not having any luck.
I've tried junction.exe (Sysinternals), ln.exe, and linkd.exe (Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit).
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How to allow acces to a symbolic link in my ~/Sites/ for Apache under Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
I need allow access to a sym-linked directory within ~/Sites from my Apache.
I Symlinked the directories like this
ln -s ~/path/to/the/source/directory/ ~/Sites/source-link-here
Now whenever I fire ...
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How can I create a symlink which points to another symlink?
Is there any way to create a symbolic link which points to another symbolic link?
I have link A (pointing to address1 = /home/data/username/var) in /home/data directory
and I need to create link B ...
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OS X: prevent Finder/File Chooser from following directory symlinks
I have a have a symlink foo in /Users/myaccount which points to /Volumes/foo. In the Finder or file chooser, the symlink does not show up as directory, so I can't expand it to select ...
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Understanding Linux symlinks
I have two directories on a virtual machine. One of them is my home/user directory, the other is the /var/www/html folder which renders the public website.
Every time I upload files for my web app ...
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Accessing a symbolic link on a Mac, when the directory is shared and mapped to a Windows drive letter
The symbolic link points to an external hard drive on the Mac.
When I access the symbolic link from the Windows machine, I get an access denied error.
What do I need to do so that I can get to the ...
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What are the various link types in Windows? How do I create them?
Is it possible to link two files or folders without having a different extension under Windows?
I'm looking for functionality equivalent to the soft and hard links in Unix.
Background:
I have a ...
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How synchronize two disks (or folders) using symbolic (or hard) links (like rsync)?
I'm searching a tool or a shell script or another program to synchronize two or more folders or disks.
But it differs of rsync tool, because, I don't want to duplicate the missing file, but do a ...
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linking private documents in public directory
On an OS X server, I have some documents in /Users/me/Documents/here/
Permissions to /Users/me/Documents is set to drwxrwxr--.
Permissions to /Users/me/Documents/here is set to drwxrwxr-x.
I want ...
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directory junction vs directory symbolic link?
MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target
/D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J ...
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What happens when I backup a symbolic link to a briefcase?
The story: I recently started trying DropBox. After some fiddling, I found I could use an app, DropBoxFolderSync, to sync a folder with DropBox, leaving something called a "Symbolic Link" (which seems ...
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How to create a symbolic link in an other directory?
There are two directories A and B and a file F which is located in B. The working directory is B.
How can you create a symbolic link in A pointing to F in B without changing the directory?
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Cannot symlink MyISAM databases
So we're a few web developers working on their own projects, which we'd like to access remotely, but still work locally (so, LAMP on the server, MAMP on each computer). The benefits include easily ...
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Should programs follow symlinks?
A program that recursively traverses a directory tree, needs to figure out what to do about symlinks (and/or junction points on Windows), to avoid going into an infinite loop when a symlink points to ...
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A sync method that creates symbolic links?
Does anybody know of an sync app that can produce symbolic links rather than copying the files? Or what would a (Windows) batch script look like that does this?
If a script is the solution, I want to ...
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How get full path to target of link
If I have a symbolic link /var/opt/foo created with ln -fs /path/to/target/dir foo. How can I in a script that sees only the link get /path/to/target/dir?
What I want to achieve in the script is rm ...
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When creating a symbolic link, how do I troubleshoot 'too many levels of symbolic links'?
I'm trying to create a symbolic link on
Ubuntu 10.04 it says:
me@laptop:~/PHPUnit$ ls
assertions.php LICENSE PHPUnit README.markdown
build.xml package.xml phpunit.bat ...
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Developer is requesting that I symlink /sbin/shutdown to /bin/shutdown, why?
A developer who is build a bespoke system for my company is asking me to set the following symlink, and I'm not sure whether there is any point to this at all, and why the developer can't just change ...
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Is there a fast method of changing directory to a symbolic links parent or source?
Say I have folder stucture:
|- dir1/
| |- sub1/
|
|- dir2/
|- sub1link -> /dir1/sub1/
and my current working directory is sub1link, is there a quick way to either:
change directory to ...
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Find symbolic links
I'm awared that find -L or find -type l would find all symbolic links on a given path.
But I'm trying to find all symbolic links that points to my foo folder.
Any tips?
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Flatten symlink for Virtualbox Share
I have a Virtualbox machine that I use for development, and I mount a directory for a project I'm working on within it. This directory has symlinks to a few other directories around my host file ...
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How to stop following symlinks in dropbox
What I have:
Dropbox\
projects\
serverfault\
stackoverflow\
superuser\
currentProject -> projects\superuser [Sometimes I change it to other project]
When I sync ...
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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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symbolic links rename destination with out effecting source (xp machine)
i'm using windows XP
i have a directory with an invalid naming schame,
i would like to clone the dir (without actually coping it, as in symlinks)
and rename the files there in the proper manner for ...
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Mac osx — view contents of a symlink?
Basically I want to look inside the symlink. Is this possible?
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What kind of link is this, and how do I deal with them?
I've got an application that has created some sort of filesystem directory link that I've never come across. It appears to behave exactly like a symbolic link to the directory, except that as far as I ...
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Change many symbolic links at once?
I have about 40 symbolic links in a directory that look like this:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 anna staff 45B 22 Jun 11:20 menu-bg-left.jpg -> ../../../../../hg/www/images/menu-bg-left.jpg
lrwxr-xr-x ...
