the symbolic link is linking to /lib64. if say I delete the directory and not the symbolic link, it will be catastrophe
The unlink() system call and the rm utility (which uses the unlink() system call to remove files) act on symbolic links, not the files pointed to by symbolic links.
Furthermore, unless you use the -r option to rm, rm won't remove directories.
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...?
Thanks in advance (9 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 All,
I have to set a soft link to a directory, e.g.
it’s done, however I want it make it permanent and in case if any program is pointing to /cms/cmsuat/server/cmu/contribution it should go to /cms/cmsUAT/server/cmu/Contribution. Need your help!
Thanks in advance! (4 Replies)
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$: ls -l | grep "^l"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 28 Aug 9 2011 bdump -> diag/rdbms/posp1/posp1/trace
mnlxd110(oracle)/db/posd2/dba$:... (7 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 REDHAT
symlinks
SYMLINKS(8) System Manager's Manual SYMLINKS(8)NAME
symlinks - symbolic link maintenance utility
SYNOPSIS
symlinks [ -cdrstv ] dirlist
DESCRIPTION
symlinks is a useful utility for maintainers of FTP sites, CDROMs, and Linux software distributions. It scans directories for symbolic
links and lists them on stdout, often revealing flaws in the filesystem tree.
Each link is output with a classification of relative, absolute, dangling, messy, lengthy, or other_fs.
relative links are those expressed as paths relative to the directory in which the links reside, usually independent of the mount point of
the filesystem.
absolute links are those given as an absolute path from the root directory as indicated by a leading slash (/).
dangling links are those for which the target of the link does not currently exist. This commonly occurs for absolute links when a
filesystem is mounted at other than its customary mount point (such as when the normal root filesystem is mounted at /mnt after booting
from alternative media).
messy links are links which contain unnecessary slashes or dots in the path. These are cleaned up as well when -c is specified.
lengthy links are links which use "../" more than necessary in the path (eg. /bin/vi -> ../bin/vim) These are only detected when -s is
specified, and are only cleaned up when -c is also specified.
other_fs are those links whose target currently resides on a different filesystem from where symlinks was run (most useful with -r ).
OPTIONS -c convert absolute links (within the same filesystem) to relative links. This permits links to maintain their validity regardless of
the mount point used for the filesystem -- a desirable setup in most cases. This option also causes any messy links to be cleaned
up, and, if -s was also specified, then lengthy links are also shortened. Links affected by -c are prefixed with changed in the
output.
-d causes dangling links to be removed.
-r recursively operate on subdirectories within the same filesystem.
-s causes lengthy links to be detected.
-t is used to test for what symlinks would do if -c were specified, but without really changing anything.
-v show all symbolic links. By default, relative links are not shown unless -v is specified.
BUGS
symlinks does not recurse or change links across filesystems.
AUTHOR
symlinks has been written by Mark Lord <mlord@bnr.ca>, the developer and maintainer of the IDE Performance Package for linux.
SEE ALSO symlink(2)Version 1.2 November 1994 SYMLINKS(8)