Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all!

I have the following problem:

I want to create a symbolic link at the root: /a
which points to the folder: /b/MyFiles

It's simple, but here comes the troubling part. If I log in with an other user at the same time, I would like to see the following under a:

/b/HisFiles

so another folder, which contains his files.

It would be like a version control system, when you log in, something happens (environment variables are set, link is configured), and the link shows to your files, but if someone else log in, the link uses his settings, to point to his files while you can use it like nothing has happened.

Do you know any solution for it?

If the explanation is not clear, please tell me, I'm kinda new at foruming :$

A link cannot point to more than one different place at the same time. I would forget using a link and look at using an environment variable in the user's profile (assuming some sort of Bourne-like shell).

Code:

# In user 1 profile
VCS_DIR=/b/MyFiles
export VCS_DIR

Code:

# In user 2 profile
VCS_DIR=/b/HisFiles
export VCS_DIR

Hard to be more specific because we don't know what Operating System and version you have or what Shell you prefer.