You can combine grep and awk into one awk statement and optimize for different column counts in ls -l:
or you could use find with readlink (assuming you have readlink installed):
I was wondering is it possible todo something like following:
A) Settings:-
- 2 servers on the network
- both can be reached via /net/SERVER1/datadir and /net/SERVER2/datadir
- i'm running rsync to syncronize the data coming to server1 from whatever application
B) Wanted:
on other... (2 Replies)
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.
... (1 Reply)
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... (5 Replies)
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)
Hi,
i am trying to create sym links on sles 11 , but it seems i am doing something wrong.
oracle@tests:/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ACIS> pwd
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ACIS
oracle@tests:/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ACIS> ln -s /db/ACIS/dbase/dbf/ /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ACIS/... (2 Replies)
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
It was part of a driver compile/installation procedure by Digi for Ubuntu stating that dash isn't supported and a symbolic link... (2 Replies)
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)
Hi, trying to understand more about symblic link, when I compiled a program called "match" in one folder ~/downloadsoftware/I want this program to be accessible like a system command by putting a symbolic link in /usr/bin/ Not by setting the $PATH method in .bashrc at this time.
What I did is:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: yifangt
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
readlink
READLINK(1) User Commands READLINK(1)NAME
readlink - print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names
SYNOPSIS
readlink [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
-f, --canonicalize
canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively; all but the last component must exist
-e, --canonicalize-existing
canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively, all components must exist
-m, --canonicalize-missing
canonicalize by following every symlink in every component of the given name recursively, without requirements on components exis-
tence
-n, --no-newline
do not output the trailing delimiter
-q, --quiet,
-s, --silent
suppress most error messages
-v, --verbose
report error messages
-z, --zero
separate output with NUL rather than newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report readlink translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
ject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by Dmitry V. Levin.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO readlink(2), realpath(1), realpath(3)
The full documentation for readlink is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and readlink programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info coreutils 'readlink invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 READLINK(1)