Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a home directory namely /pto/ppa/ridbmw/etl/

Now i have various directorys below the home directory. For eg
from the home directory if i say cd /roddata it changes to that directory. I think its kind of link (I don't know if it's hard or soft). Now i need to create a new directory and make it have the same functionality.

For eg i now have to create a directory /poddata from the home directory and when i say cd /poddata from the home it shuld take me there. can some body help with the command.

I tried using ln -s /poddata from the home directory but when i say cd /poddata it says : not found

Please help.

When you say 'cd /roddata', it means that there is a link named roddata in root (/) to the directory named roddata in your home directory. So if you create a directory named poddata in your home directory (as in your example), you should create a link in root.

Like this:

Code:

ln -s /pto/ppa/ridbmw/etl/poddata /poddata

Note that you need to be root to write in /.

Thanks blow torch!!!!

Thanks blow torch!!!! Is there no way to make this happen without taking the help of admin(Root)

I'm afraid not. Any changes in the root filesystem can only be done by root.