A soft link allows you to put nearly any text into it, not necessarily paths and files. So why take the extra effort to check and disallow a self reference? You'll hit a brick wall anyhow sooner or later:
Hi all!
I'd like to know the differences between hard links and soft links. I've already read the ln manpage, but i'm not quite sure of what i understood.
Does a hard link sort of copy the file to a new name, give it the same inode number and same rights?
What exactly should I do to do this:... (3 Replies)
Hi
PLease let me know the usage of Hard Link vs Soft Link
i.e what is the basic difference and what happens when one file is changed or deleted in both the cases???
thanks (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Please help me out to find out difference between a hard link and a soft link.
I am new in unix plz help me with some example commands ( for creating such links).
Regards
S.Kamakshi :) (2 Replies)
I was wondering if it was at all possible to change the timestamp of a soft link. I want to change it to a time in the past before it was created.
Sceanrio:
In a directory i have a number of softlinks whih point to files, a script processes these files oldest first bassed on the time the... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have created soft links for some devices /dev/xvd*1. The owner of the soft links is oracle:dba. The problem is after reboot the ownership is changed to root:root. How can I permanently change the ownership to oracle:dba?
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi ,
When installing oracle software a set of directories are created under
the home directories.
Since the home directory is usually not big , i would like to create a soft link
from the home directory to mount point with alot of free space , that way the logs will not be wriiten under the... (1 Reply)
hi
i have create a soft link using below command.
ln -s <filename> <dirmane>where file name i use is t1 and dir name was t2.
i deleted the dir t2 using command rm -rf to remove the soft link .
however again i create a file a using the name t2 and when i just try to link t1 to t2 ... (1 Reply)
I did restore from netbackup for root file system on separate slice instead of corrupted one. After restoration I found there are number of soft link issues lie
e.g
libabcxyx > /mnt/usr/lib
it should be
libabcxyz > /usr/lib
does any have solution to change symbolic link changed in... (1 Reply)
can u help me out how change the hooked file below.
VEUEMASTER.txt -> /sbvnj/kfls//VSUE_OBR_MAER.txt.201503230800 (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
build-jar-repository
BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1) User Commands BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)NAME
build-jar-repository - create a symbolic link to a JAR
SYNOPSIS
build-jar-repository [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... JAR
DESCRIPTION
Build a JAR repository in the named directory by copying files or creating symbolic links
OPTIONS
If no option is specified the default action will be to create symbolic links
-c, --copy
copy files
-h, --hard
create hard links
-p, --preserve-naming
try to preserve the names of the original JAR files (in case of a nested hit the slashes in the path will still be replaced by
underscores)
using this option makes any future automated repository rebuild impossible, and implies -c unless specified otherwise
-s, --soft, --symbolic
create symbolic links (default)
--help
display help text
EXAMPLES
build-jar-repository . jndi
will create a symbolic link to the JNDI JAR in the current working directory
build-jar-repository -h /tmp oro
will create a hard link to the ORO JAR in /tmp
AUTHOR
Written by Nicholas Mailhot and David Walluck
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/)
build-jar-repository (jpackage-utils) 1.7.0 March 2006 BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)