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Create symbolic links to files using wildcards
I want to create symlinks to multiple files:
ln -s dev-*.php 's/dev-(.*\.php)/$1/'
Results hoped for:
site.php links to dev-site.php
file.php links to dev-file.php
What's the most ...
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vote
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Create a link but don't change the canonical path
In each users' directory there exists a symbolic link to /var/www/website/public_html/. However, whenever a user cds into the link, he sees the path as /home/username/public_html/. Is there any way to ...
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How do I tell if a folder is actually a symlink and how do I fix it if it's broken?
How do I tell if I have a symlink, a shortcut of some sort, or a folder in Linux? Please see following screenshot.
As you can see, the ls command lists objects where some are colored in dark blue ...
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Create a new link to access all files and folders
I get stuck to create a shell script for a new link something like that
link linkPathName orginalPathName
I want to create a link between a new link and original path; however, both can access ...
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2answers
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open a file using CDPATH and symlink
To quickly move around, I added a path to CDPATH that contains symlinks to different locations. I did this by adding the following line to .bashrc:
export CDPATH=~/symlinks
When working with ...
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symbolic link to a directory and relative path
I've created symlink with absolute path to the directory (Blink) and have for example following tree:
$ ls -l /tmp/A
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 3 12:27 Blink -> /tmp/B
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ...
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4answers
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Converting relative path to absolute path
Is there a *nix command to get absolute(and canonicalized) path from relative path(with current path) or symbolic link?
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2answers
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ln gives different results when run multiple times
I have this simple script to use with seventh sense (it's a lone wolf gamebook reader/player):
#!/bin/bash
GAME_PATH=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")
SEVENTH_SENSE_PATH=$(echo ...
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How to remove the directory a symbolic link links to plus the symbolic link?
Say a is a symbolic link to b. I am looking for a simple command to remove both a and b at once that does not require me to know about b.
