Is there any way to have a symbolic link that links a local .jpg file to a .jpg file on the internet in a l/unix environment?
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No, this is not normally possible. The only possible way I can think of that this could even be attempted would be to use a FIFO or similar and have a process monitoring it to download the file when its accessed. |
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Maybe your best hope would be to use something like httpfs. But the http site must be specified at mount time. Maybe similar fuse filesystems exist that won't require a host to be given at mount time, but I don't know any. |
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