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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problem with Links Post 9269 by mischiefdemon on Wednesday 24th of October 2001 05:19:10 PM
Old 10-24-2001
Problem with Links

Hi,


Someone told me that Links where useful in Unix, but when I asked them how, he couldn't tell me... All he told me was, "well you can use hard-link or symbolic link".

When I asked him what were the diference, he told me that there is no real difference.


Can you please tell enlighten me.

What is link? and is there any differnces between symbolic link and hard- link?






Thankx
 

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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)
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