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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Symbolic Link Confusion Post 302116689 by DeepakS on Monday 7th of May 2007 04:20:16 PM
Old 05-07-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sepia
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.
if you do a "ls -l" in the directory where you created admindirectory it should list:

Code:
lrwxrwxrwx  1 user group   23 2006-09-07 23:52 admindirectory -> /one/two/three/four/help/admin

Dates and times will differ. This isn't really a copy of the directory, it is a pointer to the linked directory. If you make any changes inside admindirectory it will be the same in /one/two/three/four/help/admin (and vice versa)
 

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NAME

       users-admin - Users Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       users-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       users-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.

       users-admin allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system.

OPTIONS

       users-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       users-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.

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