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OS X Lion : Remove some users folders an replace them by a symbolic link
I have copied my music, movies and pictures folders to another drive and created symbolic links in my user folder that point the new location.
The links do work, but I cannot remove the original ...
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Using mklink in Windows7
I have two usb flash drives D:\ and H:\, inside they have some bin files
001.bin,002.bin on D
003.bin 004.bin on H
I want to create a symbolic link in such a way that when a program accesses ...
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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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Unix (Debian) autocomplete paths thru symlinks
By default, directory symlinks on unix systems are treated as files as far as the autocomplete feature goes. For example, having a directory symlink at /srv/link/, typing /srv/liTAB does only complete ...
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Use a symbolic link to create a new symbolic link
I have 2 directories (FOO, LALA). I create a symbolic link in one of them like this
ln -s /etc/apache2 FOO/apache2
Afterwards I want to create another symlink, pointing to the same directory, but ...
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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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.htaccess speed vs. symlink or DNS setting I don't know about?
This is probably a very simple question, but there's so much content out there that it was hard to google the correct problem I have.
I have 3 domains that I all want to go the very same place, ...
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Vim doesn't load symlinked .vimrc
I've got a symlinked .vimrc:
simont@charmander ~/repositories/config-files [master *]
± $ ls -l ~/.vimrc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 simont admin 6 9 May 17:14 /Users/simont/.vimrc -> .vimrc
However, vim ...
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Make Bash's PS1 show original directory name and not symlink?
I currently have PS1='\W' but when in a symbolic link'd directory, the prompt shows the symlink name, how can I make PS1 to show the original directory name?
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Symbolic links when formatted
I have a symbolic link in C drive to a location on D drive. If I delete the C drive partition or format C drive, will it delete/destroy the files on D drive? I run windows 7
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Virtual machine sharing setup with Windows host and *nix guest that allows symlinks?
I'm using VirtualBox (and have tried VMWare) on a Windows 7 host with an Ubuntu server guest. I've set up folder sharing in VirtualBox so that my Ubuntu server home dir is a mount of my Windows 7 home ...
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Executable can't find correct files when called via symbolic link
I made a symbolic link to an executable with
ln -s /usr/bin/mydir/myexec /usr/bin/myexec
When I executed myexec in Bash, it does not load the proper files which are located in the original myexec's ...
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Is it safe to replace a folder with a partition mounted to that folder n Windows 7?
I know most programs won't notice the difference, but is it true for e.g. virtualization software like VMware?
I'll give you an example:
Let's say my virtual machines are in C:\_VM\
My C: space ...
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Windows hard link taking up space?
On my computer I create a hard link
mklink /h git-link.exe git.exe
Hardlink created for git-link.exe <<===>> git.exe
Now they both take up space
2012-04-17 12:14 AM 6,905,039 ...
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Extracting uncommon components from Windows installed on SSD
I have a 50gb SSD harddisk with windows 7 installed on it. I did this for performance for my windows installation and the related applications (Visual Studio, etc). In a projects folder I also store ...
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How can I mount/mirror/symlink individual web-published files onto my hard drive?
Basically I want to download a file, but then have it automatically update if the web version changes.
I'm expecting the web version to have a static URL.
I'd like to be able to move the file ...
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Shadow copy referencing invalid volume from symboliclink when using TrueCrypt
I recently replaced my motherboard after the last one failed (was shorting and causing random reboots). I'm sure this was not healthy for the machine, and that a clean install would do wonders, but ...
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Utility for creating symlink to directory tree
I remember that there is an utility for GNU/Linux, that given some directory,
builds the same directory hierarchy, but with all regular files replaced by symlinks
to the corresponding ones.
I can't ...
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symbolic link to desktop in windows
I'm looking to make a symbolic link to my Desktop in windows.
The reason I want this is that I've been doing a lot of web development on my local machine
and I'm looking for a shortcut that I can type ...
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Generate a list of files by piping output of find command into another find command?
I need to generate a list of files for use in a shell script. The list should be all files (in a specified directory) that are hardlinked. I want to replace the hardlinks with symlinks.
(Obviously, ...
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How to improve this bash shell script for turning hardlinks into symlinks?
This shell script is mostly the work of other people. It has gone through several iterations, and I have tweaked it slightly while also trying to fully understand how it works. I think I understand it ...
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Is it possible to fork a symlink?
I have my configuration file (e.g. .zshrc) put into an encfs container. When I log into the system the container is not yet mounted, hence the the symlink is dangling then. Is there a way to let the ...
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Why can't I make a symbolic link (mklink) even when I'm an administrator
When I run mklink /D "C:\Users\bwilliams\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2" "C:\Users\bwilliams\Dropbox\Sublime Text", I get this error `You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.
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brew link jpeg issues
I am trying to install opencv on Mac OSX Lion.
brew install opencv
I get the following error (and a few other similar ones)
Error: The linking step did not complete successfully
The formula built, ...
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Accessing target file on remote system with chains of symbolic links in Vista
I am creating a chain of symbolic links (up to max, which is 64 chains) on a remote target file on vista. While connecting a new symlink to this chain, i am verifying whether i am able to open target ...
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Sym-linking windows with linux
Is it possible to make a sym-link in linux that can be used by windows? I have a dual boot system of Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 and I want to move my AppData folder to another drive. I was planning on ...
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Updating the last write time for a symbolic link in Windows
Is it possible to update the last write time for a symbolic link in Windows? I can use the following powershell command to update the last write time of a directory, but it doesn't work for a ...
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Are world-readable/writable/executable links in /usr/bin security holes?
% ls -l /usr/bin/edit
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 10 05:54 /usr/bin/edit -> vim*
This seems to ...
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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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Linux: Shared and mounted directories
Fairly-new to Linux and am trying to see if I can start getting a little clever. I have a server that contains files that I'd like to have "locally" accessible on other servers directly under the / ...
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Is there something like hardlinks that split into separate files on modifications?
Let's say files orig and copy are huge but identical files. In order to save storage space one could therefore either make copy a soft-link to orig or hard-link both files to the same data. orig must ...
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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 ...
