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Old 12-06-2011
Odd while Creating Symbolic Link
Hi,
Code:
 # mkdir usr3
   
  # ls -l /h/uxossolbld10/0/teamcity/agent
  total 8
  drwxrwxr-x  14 test1    rdl          512 Nov 30 02:54 conf
  drwxrwxr-x   3 test1    rdl          512 Jun 24 14:21 scripts
  drwxrwxr-x  10 test1    rdl          512 Jun  3  2011 teamcity
  drwxrwxr-x   4 test1    rdl          512 Dec  6 02:10 tools

# ln -s /h/uxossolbld10/0/teamcity/agent/ usr3
   
  # ls -l usr3
  total 2
  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         32 Dec  6 02:32 agent -> /h/uxossolbld10/0/teamcity/agent
   
  # cd usr3
  
 # ls
  agent

I created symbolic link for the folder “agent”. But when I cd to the dir usr3 and put ls, it doesn’t list the contents of the directory agent.

Instead there is a directory agent.

Can someone please help?


Thanks & Regards,
Divakar
Last edited by vbe; 12-06-2011 at 05:09 AM.. Reason: code tags!!!
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Old 12-06-2011
Follow the blow steps

Code:
$cd test  

$ls 
file1  file2

$ln -s ../test ../symbolic_test   ( symbolic_test should not exists at that location , it will be created when you execute this line ) 

$ls -l ../symbolic_test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 raavul users 6 2011-12-06 04:46 symbolic_test -> ./test

$ ls ../symbolic_test
file1  file2

 
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