As fas as I know, symbolic links can't be used for folders/directories. Its for files.
Please correct me If I am wrong and let me know further on it.
Symbolic links work just fine for folders. You can't hardlink a folder, but symlinks can link to anything. You can even make a symlink that goes nowhere if you really want. It's just a string, in the end.
Absolute paths are reccomended since it takes the destination path completely literally without considering the current working directory at all.
Hi All,
One small request. In UNIX/LINUX we can have our own aliases in .bashrc file. My doubt is when we add a new alias and if it is tried in already opened terminals it will not work, may be it is not going to recognise. Bit when we use the same alias in new terminal it will work. I... (1 Reply)
Folks;
I know this might sound stupid, but Can i alias a web link to another web link in a UNIX server?
Let say i have a web link named http://test.new.com/wiki
Can i alias that so when i click on it or i type it in the browser address it opens but the link in the browser say something like:... (1 Reply)
HI All,
I have a small question/clarification/doubt . Does anyone know how to provide alias in the mails that come from Unix servers.
Like i have a Unix server that generates status mails every hour for a scheduled job , it sends me mails with status with the ID in from field as... (3 Replies)
Here's my opportunity.... I want to turn off the * expansion, execute the shell script and have it see the arguement with the * and not all the filenames, and then set +f once the script is executed.
1) I have an alias set as follows:
alias scp='set -f; /opt/dir1/dir2/script.sh ; set +f'... (1 Reply)
Hi,
is it normal, that the IP alias (service IP) can't be seen with ifconfig -a , as eth0:1 for example
the IP is on the node, you can ping it, and open ports for that IP
look at this:
# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
link/loopback... (4 Replies)
hi to all members in this forums .. Nice to meet you...
i only have a questions about command utility of "dd":
for example i will type:
pico trial
this is my file.
and save it and type chmod a+x trial
can there be a way that instead of typing:
dd if=trial of=trial.copy conv=ucase... (3 Replies)
Being able to mark in an alias definition a point of minimal abbreviation, an old feature of VAX/VMS shell (DCL) would be really nice in modern *nix shells.
In DCL you used to be able to define an alias (in its own weird syntax) which would be something like this:
$ alias fuz*zyanimals="cat... (5 Replies)
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symlink
symlink(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual symlink(4)NAME
symlink - symbolic link
DESCRIPTION
A symbolic (or soft ) link is a file whose name indirectly refers (points) to a relative or absolute path name.
During path name interpretation, a symbolic link to a relative path name is expanded to the path name being interpreted, and a symbolic
link to an absolute path name is replaced with the path name being interpreted.
Thus, given the path name
If is a symbolic link to a relative path name such as the path name is interpreted as
If is a symbolic link to an absolute path name such as the path name is interpreted as
All symbolic links are interpreted in this manner, with one exception: when the symbolic link is the last component of a path name, it is
passed as a parameter to one of the system calls: or (see readlink(2), rename(2), symlink(2), unlink(2), chown(2) and lstat(2)). With
these calls, the symbolic link, itself, is accessed or affected.
Unlike normal (hard) links, a symbolic link can refer to any arbitrary path name and can span different logical devices (volumes).
The path name can be that of any type of file (including a directory or another symbolic link), and may be invalid if no such path exists
in the system. (It is possible to make symbolic links point to themselves or other symbolic links in such a way that they form a closed
loop. The system detects this situation by limiting the number of symbolic links it traverses while translating a path name.)
The mode and ownership of a symbolic link is ignored by the system, which means that affects the actual file, but not the file containing
the symbolic link (see chmod(1)).
Symbolic links can be created using or (see ln(1) and symlink(2)).
AUTHOR
was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.
SEE ALSO cp(1), symlink(2), readlink(2), link(2), stat(2), mknod(1M).
symlink(4)