Allow me to point out something. Using zillions of symbolic links is fraught with problems. A simple one is that you use up files. Filesystems have data objects called inodes allocated to them. The number is fixed. So if you have 10000 inodes allocated, all of your directories, filename and link files use up one inode each.
To answer your question -
Note: You also seem to have a syntax error in your find statement.
consider NOT using a one liner, use a function instead:
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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Any idea how to create a symbolic link...for example i want to create a symbolink link for a specific user in his profile to use the df command...?
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hi experts,
i had create wrong symbolic link on my server use this ln -s /opt/EBS /export/home/EBS, cause i had create an EBS directory on /export/home/EBS/ so the command ln create EBS directory on /export/home/EBS/EBS/....
how to remove the EBS that had created by ln command ?
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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)
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, firstly I am not so familiar with linux and i think i have done some damage to the red hat server. It seems that now in command line I am unable to use any basic command whatsoever (ls, move, cp, bash, etc).
I was trying to deploy an application and have changed the symbolic link (soft... (1 Reply)
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"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 28 Aug 9 2011 bdump -> diag/rdbms/posp1/posp1/trace
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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)
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.
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symlink
SYMLINK(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SYMLINK(2)NAME
symlink - make a new name for a file
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int symlink(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
symlink():
_BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 || _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
DESCRIPTION
symlink() creates a symbolic link named newpath which contains the string oldpath.
Symbolic links are interpreted at run time as if the contents of the link had been substituted into the path being followed to find a file
or directory.
Symbolic links may contain .. path components, which (if used at the start of the link) refer to the parent directories of that in which
the link resides.
A symbolic link (also known as a soft link) may point to an existing file or to a nonexistent one; the latter case is known as a dangling
link.
The permissions of a symbolic link are irrelevant; the ownership is ignored when following the link, but is checked when removal or renam-
ing of the link is requested and the link is in a directory with the sticky bit (S_ISVTX) set.
If newpath exists it will not be overwritten.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EACCES Write access to the directory containing newpath is denied, or one of the directories in the path prefix of newpath did not allow
search permission. (See also path_resolution(7).)
EEXIST newpath already exists.
EFAULT oldpath or newpath points outside your accessible address space.
EIO An I/O error occurred.
ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving newpath.
ENAMETOOLONG
oldpath or newpath was too long.
ENOENT A directory component in newpath does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link, or oldpath is the empty string.
ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available.
ENOSPC The device containing the file has no room for the new directory entry.
ENOTDIR
A component used as a directory in newpath is not, in fact, a directory.
EPERM The file system containing newpath does not support the creation of symbolic links.
EROFS newpath is on a read-only file system.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
No checking of oldpath is done.
Deleting the name referred to by a symlink will actually delete the file (unless it also has other hard links). If this behavior is not
desired, use link(2).
SEE ALSO ln(1), lchown(2), link(2), lstat(2), open(2), readlink(2), rename(2), symlinkat(2), unlink(2), path_resolution(7), symlink(7)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2010-09-20 SYMLINK(2)