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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Symlink Post 303004117 by dellanicholson on Tuesday 26th of September 2017 11:31:59 PM
Old 09-27-2017
Symlink

I know how to create a symlink but I am getting an error message that the file already exists. Also, my symlink doesn't point from target directory to the path correctly,

Here is an example of the path to my folder structure

path: cd /wkspce/wff/DEV/jobs/DEL


the folder structure is:

DEL (TOP directory)
|
archive (subdirectory directory)
|
DEL (subdirectory under archive)

The symlink target directory is the archive directory and path /wkspc/wff/Dev/data/ess/archive/DEL

My symlink needs to point from the archive directory to /wkspc/wff/Dev/data/ess/archive/DEL


DEL (DEL is the TOP directory and archive is a subdirectory and DEL is another subdirectory under archive.

The symlink results need to look like the following:

Code:
archive ->   wkspc/wff/Dev/data/ess/archive/DEL

 

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symlink(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						symlink(3)

NAME
PerlIO::via::symlink - PerlIO layers for create symlinks SYNOPSIS
open $fh, '>:via(symlink)', $fname; print $fh "link foobar"; close $fh; DESCRIPTION
The PerlIO layer "symlink" allows you to create a symbolic link by writing to the file handle. You need to write C"link $name" to the file handle. If the format does not match, "close" will fail with EINVAL. TEST COVERAGE
----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ File stmt branch cond sub time total ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ blib/lib/PerlIO/via/symlink.pm 100.0 100.0 n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0 Total 100.0 100.0 n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0 ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ AUTHORS
Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004-2005 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html> perl v5.16.2 2005-03-01 symlink(3)
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