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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How to create a soft or symbolic link?
I am installing p4v in /opt, but /usr/bin is on my path. Is it possible to create a soft or symbolic link for p4v from /opt to /usr/bin, so I can just type "p4v" since /usr/bin is in my path?
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Is there a difference between a symbolic link via terminal or right-click make link?
Title says all. I'm wondering if there is a difference between going to a terminal and typing "ln -s path 'path" or just right clicking on something and selecting make link.
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What in /home would benefit from being on an SSD?
In Is a 40GB SSD practical to use for ' / ' Jorge describes how he symlinks directories in his /home that would benefit from being on an SSD. The directories he names are
~/.cache
~/.config
...
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Does Ubuntu One follow symlinks if synchronizing a folder?
I've looked for this question and haven't gotten a reasonable answer yet. If I synchronize a folder will it synchronize a symlink? Will it process all the way through the link to all the files within ...
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Symbolic links vs Hard links [duplicate]
I just read the manpage for symlinks, but I still dont get it ... so hardlinks are pointers to the file/dir. Then symlink is a pointer to a pointer? Whats the use of a symlink then? Why/when should I ...
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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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What is the difference between a hard link and a symbolic link?
As the title says, I would like to know the difference between a hard link and a soft link created by the command ln. The command man ln does provide information, but does not sufficiently answer my ...
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How do I automatically create links to directories?
What is the easiest/quickest way to share files among different users?
I would like each user to have access to the same music and pictures directories. Creating symbolic links seems tedious as I ...
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How can I create an alias or whatever so that when I enter “kt” it executes “killall gnome-terminal”?
I'd appreciate any help. The body must be at least 30 chars so I'm going to type some more. Thanks.
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How to create a read-only link to a directory?
One of my scripts dynamically creates a symlink like so:
ln -s /home/hosting/projects/images /home/hosting/projects/demo/images
How can I make it so that the access through link is read-only?
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How do I symlink certain directories in /home to an SSD?
In Is a 40GB SSD practical to use for ' / ' Jorge describes how he symlinks things in his /home that would benefit from being on an SSD. How is this done?
I've figured that I need to do the ...
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How to move files leaving symlinks behind?
How can I move/copy files from one directory to another, leaving the symlinks in the original directory. I know the ln -screates symlinks in the destination, but I want to leave the symlinks in the ...
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How can I stop Nautilus from dereferencing symlinks?
I use symbolic links to tidy my home folder. This works well in the terminal, since the links create the illusion of normal folders:
In Nautilus, however, the links behave more like Windows ...
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How to check whether ln -s created a symbolic link or a hard link?
I'm trying to create a symbolic link with ln -s old.file new.file but ln seems to stubbornly create hardlinks instead. For instance, when I move the link to another folder, it becomes broken. What's ...
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how to find real file from link
ls -l java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2019-02-17 11:37 java -> /etc/anotherLink/java
when I do ls -l it shows path to file, but that file can also be a link. is there any way to show path to real ...
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Cannot transfer file due to “Filesystem does not support symbolic links” error
When I want to transfer files from my local hard drive to my thumbdrive, I keep getting this error:
Filesystem does not support symbolic links.
I don't know what this is, I need help with ...
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How to expand encrypted /home to second internal drive?
I have a huge number of photos, and I want to move just my /Pictures folder to a second SATA drive in my computer for performance reasons. I want everything to work as it is now, except that /Pictures ...
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Can't use symlinks in local /var/www directory
I'm setting up my local LAMP server, and when I go to it, I can't follow symlinks with the Apache user (www-data). At this point, I've tried chowning and chmoding and I've added
Options ...
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sshfs transform_symlinks is broken
I've been using the same fstab command for a while now:
sshfs#user@host.be:/home/user /home/user/vps fuse user,port=22,uid=1000,gid=1000,allow_other,reconnect,transform_symlinks 0 0
And it used to ...
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How do symbolic links work in Dropbox?
I made some links to files in a folder. When I added that folder to Dropbox, the links contained duplicate copies of the files linked to. Have you had this problem? Do you understand what is ...
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How do I deal with too many levels of symbolic links?
I'm using Ubuntu Live USB to access my windows files, I'd like to perform a complete, file by file, backup of the Windows C: Drive.
Since I want everything backed up, I'm doing a copy and paste. Copy ...
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Can symlinks be used in /etc/cron.d/?
I'm trying to implement a configuration mechanism that allows in a certain project to deploy through svn a cron configuration.
I immediately thougt that what I should do is cerate symlinks from ...
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Can I symlink a Dropbox folder?
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.10 as a dual boot with Windows 8. I'd already had windows up and running for a few months before installing Ubuntu, so in order to have my files accessible from both ...
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Can't change destination of symbolic link
I want to change the destination of an existing symbolic link, without removing the link or the old destination.
I have previously created a symbolic link to a directory such as follows :
$ cd ...
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How do I add links to launcher
I am new to Ubuntu; I've been using it for a couple hours now, and I encountered one little problem that I was hoping to solve. I got a program on my computer without actually using the software ...
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What is different symbolic link with hard link after unlik?
1.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
void main(){
link("foo", "bar");
unlink("foo");
if(open("bar", 1) < 0)
printf("open error\n");
else
...
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Need ProFTPd to follow symbolic link
I have 2 folder:
/var/www/project1/
/var/www/repository/module/
and I have this symbolic link:
/var/www/project1/module/News => /var/www/repository/module/News
I know the target is outside the ...
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Are symlinks internally bidirectional or are they only pointing somewhere?
How are symlinks implemented? Are references stored on both sides or only in the location where the symlink is pointing from?
Story: I have a weird "bug" in the folder view of Sublime. A folder that ...
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If I create a link to a folder, how can I get from that linked folder to the “real” folder from within Nautilus?
Say I have a folder several layers down in my documents folder. And I want easy access to it from my desktop. To do that I:
Go to the parent folder in Nautilus.
Right click on the folder's Icon and ...
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Where to put One-Off Computer-Wide Software Folders?
I am pretty new to Linux so pardon the ignorance.
I am installing an application (a wiki server) on my system but am not doing so through aptitude as I can only grab a tar.gz of the package. This ...
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How to find the final target of a daisy-chain of symbolic links?
I needed to issue several commands to follow a chain of symbolic links to the final target.
Is there a command which will do it in a single step?
which updatedb
/usr/bin/updatedb
ls -l ...
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Mirror Files and Documents from Windows machine to Ubuntu in Virtualbox
Ok, so I have a machine with a dual boot installed (Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10). They are on separate hard drives. I already have Virtualbox set up to boot from the linux physical hard drive (Windows ...
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How to break or delete the symbolic link?
sudo ln -fs /usr/share/icons/Cyclone/cursor.theme etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme
I want to delete this link(as it seem that it make some problems).is this done by deleting cursor.theme file or ...
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How do I replace a directory with a symlink and retain the folder emblem?
I want to replace the folders in my home/ directory with symlinks to folders in another location, but I want to retain the folder emblems without having to go searching for them. How do I do this?
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Changing symlinks does not work for directories
In order to change a symbolic link, one can use the -fs option to eliminate the need to unlink or delete the old link first. However, trying to do so on directories does not seem to work:
$ mkdir ...
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I think “/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build” points to incorrect folder
I compile/create my own deb packages of kernel with:
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd --append-to-version=$version --revision=1 kernel_image kernel_headers
But when I install both packages, in ...
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What are some typical uses of hard links?
Everyone who was used to Windows can imagine what symlinks are and how they're used. On the other hand, the hard link concept is foreign to Windows (am I correct?).
I would like to know what are the ...
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Help with creating symbolic link
I'm a little bit confused with how the symbolic links work. I hope someone can guide me in the right direction.
I want to put a demo online from our software, which normally only runs locally on a ...
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Permissions issue with symlinks over samba
I'm having trouble accessing some files over a samba share. Here's my setup:
I have shared /shared as Shared
I have a user with the same name and pwd as my Linux user in my Windows machine
I made ...
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/opt and /usr/local on the same partition but not under root
I am planning to install Ubuntu on a new laptop soon. I want to put /opt and /usr/local directories separately from the root and home partitions, but I don't need two partitions for them, just one.
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What's the best way to add native-looking links to my NTFS data partition?
I have many documents, backups, movies, photos which I have in a Windows data partition (D: drive) that is on the same box as my Ubuntu installation.
I want to be able to use this from Ubuntu, with ...
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How can I synchronize Windows links (.lnk) to 12.10 using Ubuntu One?
My problem
UbuntuOne does not synchronize Windows link files (.lnk). Now, I do not expect UbuntuOne to synchronize the actual links by changing an .lnk file to a linux symlink, nor do I do expect ...
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Symbolic link doesn't use target working directory
I've created the following symbolic link:
Source: /usr/local/android-ndk-r5/ndk-build
Destination: /usr/local/bin/ndk-build
However, when I attempt to use ndk-build from my source directory, it ...
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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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Creating symlink for Postgres
As a developer, I often ssh right into my local database, just to test my application before pushing my code.
However, I find that every time I want to access Postgres, I have to type in
...
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Unable to create a symlink to a file
I am not able to create a simple symlink here. When I tried the command
sudo ln –s /home/vivek/Downloads/drush/drush /home/vivek/Documents/
where drush is a file inside the folder named drush, I ...
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Why ubuntu does not have /usr/bin/bash
this is not a problem, just curious:
Why ubuntu does not have /usr/bin/bash ?
as link to /bin/bash or other direction.
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Give ftp users access to directories outside their root using symlinks
I tried to give proftpd virtual users access to directories outside their home paths using symlinks I created as root through the console.
/var/ftp/users/test is the home of the user named test.
...
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Make `php` recognized as a command in terminal [closed]
I have XAMPP installed and my PHP is:
/opt/lampp/bin/php-5.3.8
Every time I need to execute a PHP file I need to do this:
/opt/lampp/bin/php-5.3.8 testando.php
Is there another way to execute it ...
