On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:53:30PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| man ln
| ln -s <exhisting file> <symlink name>
It is worth noting that in the above, "<existing file>" must be a pathname
with will work when standing in the directory containing the symlink.
So and absolute pathname will be fine (unless you move the link), but a
relative pathname must be relative to the link's directory, not relative
to the directory you are standing in when you issue the "ln" command.
Just something to keep in mind.
Example:
touch foo
mkdir synonyms
ln -s ../foo synonyms/foolink
That "../foo" is because the symlink string is used from within the
"synonyms" dir when resolving the link.
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