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Old 05-02-2007
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I have just tried to make my first shortcut aka symbolic link.

I entered this command:
ln -s /one/two/three/four/help/admin admindirectory

to make a link called 'admindirectory' that would take me to:
/one/two/three/four/help/admin

It seems to have created a directory called 'admindirectory' with all the contents of '/one/two/three/four/help/admin' in it. Has it actually done this?

Also when I type 'cd admindir' and then 'pwd' it says:
/opt/webct/admindirectory

Is there now two seperate directories and if so which is the 'correct' one?

Thanks.
Last edited by Sepia; 05-07-2007 at 03:15 PM..
 

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