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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with link creation!!!! Post 302133848 by blowtorch on Sunday 26th of August 2007 09:35:19 PM
Old 08-26-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by dsravan
I have a home directory namely /pto/ppa/ridbmw/etl/

Now i have various directorys below the home directory. For eg
from the home directory if i say cd /roddata it changes to that directory. I think its kind of link (I don't know if it's hard or soft). Now i need to create a new directory and make it have the same functionality.

For eg i now have to create a directory /poddata from the home directory and when i say cd /poddata from the home it shuld take me there. can some body help with the command.

I tried using ln -s /poddata from the home directory but when i say cd /poddata it says : not found

Please help.

When you say 'cd /roddata', it means that there is a link named roddata in root (/) to the directory named roddata in your home directory. So if you create a directory named poddata in your home directory (as in your example), you should create a link in root.

Like this:
Code:
ln -s /pto/ppa/ridbmw/etl/poddata /poddata

Note that you need to be root to write in /.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       unburden-home-dir  unburdens  the  home	directory from files and directory which cause high I/O or disk usage but are neither important if
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       When being run it moves the files and directories given in the configuration file to a location outside the home directory,  e.g.  /tmp	or
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LICENSE

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