question abt symbolic link ...
i'm doing the following ...
ln -s x.sh ./scripts/y.sh
and
cat ./scripts/y.sh
it is giving following error
cat: cannot open y.sh
Any reason u an think of ?
But it is working fine when i goto scripts directory and cretae the symbolic link.
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hello folks
how y'all doin
well i have some questions about symbolic link and hard link
hope some one answer me
i open terminal and join as root
and i wrote ln -s blah blah
then i wrote ls
i see red file called blah blah
but didn't understand what is this can some one explain and... (2 Replies)
Hey,
How can one ZIP the target of a soft/symbolic link in unix (if dodag@ is a symbolic link for the path car/reno/*.*, how can I zip car/reno/*.*, with using only dodag as my reference)?
Thxnk you. (1 Reply)
Hi,
i am trying to create sym links on sles 11 , but it seems i am doing something wrong.
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/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ACIS
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Hello All,
This may be a silly question to some but I am really stuck.
Is there a way to reverse the following;
sudo rm /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
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Hi all,
Can anyone please confirm if the command below is the only way that I can get what the symbolic link is set to?
mnlxd110(oracle)/db/posd2/dba$: ls -l | grep "^l"
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Hi everybody,
I read about treads realted to this issue but they did not resovle issue given below.
Please help me resolve issue given below
I have html file under /srv/www/htdocs/actual_folder
ls actual_folder/
test.html
and following link works... (0 Replies)
Hello all,
I am trying to recursively find symbolic links for a given name
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What I did is:... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
On a Solaris box, I am trying to move the target of a symbolic link.
Let's say the symbolic link looks like the following:
/dir1/dir2/link -> /some/dir/target
I would like to know of a simple way to move the target of the symbolic link and not the link itself. I'd like to move... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
symlink
SYMLINK(3) 1 SYMLINK(3)symlink - Creates a symbolic linkSYNOPSIS
bool symlink (string $target, string $link)
DESCRIPTION symlink(3) creates a symbolic link to the existing $target with the specified name $link.
PARAMETERS
o $target
- Target of the link.
o $link
- The link name.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.3.0 | |
| | |
| | This function is now available on Windows plat- |
| | forms (Vista, Server 2008 or greater). |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Create a symbolic link
<?php
$target = 'uploads.php';
$link = 'uploads';
symlink($target, $link);
echo readlink($link);
?>
NOTES
Note
Windows users should note that this function will only work if the system you run PHP from is Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 or
newer. Windows versions prior to that do not support symbolic links.
SEE ALSO link(3), readlink(3), linkinfo(3).
PHP Documentation Group SYMLINK(3)