Symbolic link or symlink is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory as an absolute or relative path. For most operations, symbolic links are transparent and the read or write operations on symbolic link files are redirected to actual files i.e the files that ...
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Wine won't follow Symbolic links
I can't get Wine to follow some symbolic links I have in my home folder or in applications. Is there a way to enable this? This is on Wine-1.5.18.
Edit: Just in case it helps, I'm trying to use a ...
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Run diff on symlinks
I have two folders containing a number of broken symlinks.
Is there a way to make diff compare the target of the links instead of trying to follow the links?
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How to copy symbolic links while preserving the validity of the link?
Say under directory /usr/local/boost_1_52_0/stage/lib, I have a symbolic link: libboost_timer.so, which points to the regular file libboost_timer.so.1.52.0 in the same directory.
How can I cp the ...
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Redirecting directories in home partition
I have a 60GB SSD for my / filesystem but for more space I got a 16GB SD card for my /home partition. I'm worried it won't be able to take the amount to write the /home directory. So I was wondering ...
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Can I set up a symbolic link-esque alias from (e.g.) “mybinary dothing” to “dothing”?
I have a script that takes some gene data and runs it through dozens of programs to try to tease out as much information as possible and make me some pretty reports. However, while it seems to work ...
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How to move one directory back when path contains symlink
I want to move one directory back in Thunar when I get into by symbolic link. I know that in terminal I can use cd -P but I want to obtain this behavior in Thunar.
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Symlink a directory and automatically sync its content
Suppose I have a folder foo with the two content:
data1.txt
cfg.txt
Now I create a new symlink called fo2 which points to directory foo:
cp -s -R /home/user123/foo /home/user123/fo2
It's ...
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Wine shows its applications three times in the 'Open with' dialog
Today I noticed that wine is listing its applications many times when I go to the 'Open with other application...' dialog.
It is very strange.
Where are these symbolic links stored which are shown in ...
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Files (Nautilus?) shows the real location of Symbolic Links
I some of the "folders" in my home directory are symbolic links to a larger hard drive mounted on /mnt/data.
I would like it if when I click on (for example) Music in my home directory, Nautilus ...
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Help With Hard links And Symlinks Moving Directory And Files
I have a symlink /var linking to /tmpfs/var.1
/var -> /tmpfs/var.1
I start a script called cache_tmpfs from /etc/rc.local on startup. This script will copy /var.backup/* contents to ...
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Configure Apache to access a symbolic link to samba mounted folder (Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible)
I had Arch Linux installed and was able to get this correctly working, but I decided to switch over to Ubuntu Server.
I just installed the latest (12.10) version of Ubuntu Server along with LAMP and ...
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Why does ln fails with EEXIST?
I am trying to link a file named genes.gtf to my directory, but I'm getting this error:
ln: failed to create symbolic link `./genes.gtf': File exists
What should I do?
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Evince won't save files, says “Permission denied”
If I go into evince's save dialog, go to /home/username/Documents, in my home directory, and try to create a new directory (e.g. foo), the operation fails. Evince says:
Could not create directory ...
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ProFPTd Server - directory alias/shortcut/link
Here is my situation. I want to give users access to a folder not in their home tree.
I have user1 and when he accesses the ftp he sees / when he is really accessing /somedir/home/user1
Then user2 ...
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Can I fix this Symlink problem I accidentally caused?
I was following this guide that helped me with symlinks and personal folders a few times already, but I messed up cause I accidentally did the same thing for the Desktop folder. Then I wanted to ...
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Cannot use symbolic links for MySQL
First I created a dir to hold my database data
mkdir /var/www/db_test
Then used symbolic links
ln -s /var/www/db_test/ /var/lib/mysql/
When I entered /var/lib/mysql/, I saw db_test dir with ...
