Questions tagged [ln]
ln - Command line tool to create hard links to existing files and soft links to existing and non-existent files.
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How to correct a link… Or is it a GNOME Desktop menu entry?
Few days ago, I've downloaded IntelliJ in my Downloads folder.
I've executed bin/idea.sh installed it, and a convenient icon became available in my GNOME Desktop named IntelliJ, and was shown whenever ...
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Move files & folders and Symlink
I am looking for a way to exclude some files/folder and mass move files/folders with spaces and special characters from source to destination and then symlink after move completes. So far I have ...
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Why does ln -s create a directory if soft-link exists?
I ran this command
ln -s /folder1/dir /folder2/soft_link
which did create a soft-link file where /folder2/soft_link pointed to /folder1/dir.
But I notice when I run that same command again, it ...
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Create a symbolic link containing certain subdirectories
Assuming I have the following directories:
/source/dir1/sub1
/source/dir1/sub2
/source/dir1/sub3
/source/dir1/sub4
/source/dir2/sub1
/source/dir2/sub2
/source/dir2/sub3
/source/dir2/sub4
... (...
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How to copy files from linux rhel6 to another rhel6 (which are not connected)?
How to copy files or folders from linux rhel6 server to another (which are not connected) with same file or folder properties (especially symlinks) using zip?
The only way is FTP to server1 and copy ...
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What does the -fs flag do in the ln command?
came across this line in a code base today ln -fs /tmp/Cargo.lock . and I couldn't find the -fs argument anywhere in man ln. What does it do?
P.S. The project runs this command inside of a docker ...
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Is there a path length limit for the soft link in ext2 file system?
I am working on a project for the educational purpose which I wrote an ln Linux command in c for the ext2 file system. I was trying to handle the case where the length of the src path for ln -s is ...
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ls -a lists files with “->” arrow I think they are linked how can I make my new file to change when referenced file is changed?
I have following files:
dirA/reference-file.ts
dirB/new-file.ts
I want new-file.ts to always change its content to match exact content as reference-file.ts when reference is changed.
For example ...
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what is `ln --no-dereference` suppose to do?
I'm refreshing my understanding of a few basic GNU/Linux commands that I admit that I never really understood fully for the last 20+ years.
$ man ln in part says:
-n, --no-dereference
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How to overwrite existent folder by create a symbolic link with the same name?
I'm trying to create a symbolic link to overwrite an existent folder.
I know I could simply delete the folder before create the link, however I'm looking for a ln option to do this.
By now I'm ...
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Why permission denied upon symbolic link update to new target with permissions OK?
On a Linux machine (a computing cluster, actually), I copied a folder from another user (who granted me permissions to do so using the appropriate chmod).
This folder contains symbolic links to files ...
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How can i create symbolic link for directory
I am trying to create symbolic link as below
ln -s /home/scripts/logs /home/log
The directory /home/log is already existing ,which cant be deleted. When i do this it creates the symbolic link as /...
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link config files
Problem
I'm trying to move my config files from a .dotfiles folder, and link those files to the corresponding config path.
Example
In this example I'm trying
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/nvim/init.vim ~/....
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Run node script with a global variable
I have a node script index.js with a node_modules folder.
/script/myTestJscript/index.js
/script/myTestJscript/node_modules
/script/myTestJscript/package.json
I could run the script with the command ...
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What does “ln -t” do [duplicate]
What does ln -T do? I know the flag does not exist in the BSD version of ln, and it only exists in the GNU version, and I have read the documentation that it will make ln "treat LINK_NAME as a normal ...
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Tips for remembering the order of parameters for ln?
I have used ln to write symbolic links for years but I still get the order of parameters the wrong away around.
This usually has me writing:
ln -s a b
and then looking at the output to remind ...
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Recursively “find” file names containing string and symlink files in another directory
I am trying to symlink a set of specific files from a project I'm working on.
There is a known string in each of the filenames I wish to symlink.
Here is what I have so far:
ln -s find ~/path/to/...
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Is there a way to create a symlink to a non-existent target?
Is there a way to create a symlink whose target does not exist using shell scripts?
From reading man 1 ln, I do not see an option to do so; and even -f checks if the target exists.
Is there a way to ...
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Make a `ln -s` that checks for broken symbolic links
I am trying to write a function ln() (if it is not a good idea to call it ln, it may just be as well called myln() or whatever, but that is not important) in bash, such that,
If the short option -s ...
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How to create a folder symlink that has a different name?
I want to create a symlink
~/.pm2/logs -> /opt/myapp/log
When I run
ln -sFf /opt/myapp/log ~/.pm2/logs
I get a symlink
~/.pm2/logs/log -> /opt/myapp/log
which is not what I want.
I'd ...
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I want to make symlinks of all files in a directory EXCEPT the existing symlinks in the directory
I have a bash script that creates symlinks from the directories in one users directory to another users directory. I want the script to exclude existing symlinks in the source directory when creating ...
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How to regularly update symbolic link (ln -sf) via crontab
Background
The PNG image files I want to use is stored in directories according to date, for example:
/NAS-mein/data/201812/
PNG stored within it like /NAS-mein/data/201812/foo/bar/20181231_1500....
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create symlinks by dropping version number
I have large number of shared libraries like this:
libexpat.so.1.6.7 libqquicklayoutsplugin.so libstdc++.so.6.0.24
libexportlib.so.1.0.0 libqsvg.so ...
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rm to remove a dir, any symlinks, AND symlink destinations? [duplicate]
I have two directories: /all/origins/ & /all/links/.
Everything in links/ points individually to something in origins/, but not everything in origins/ is linked in links/. (Squares, rectangles &...
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unlink delete files which are not links [duplicate]
I created a hard link
$ ln hours.sh hours_link
test it
$ ls -l hours*
-rw-r--r-- 2 me staff 653 Apr 12 2018 hours.sh
-rw-r--r-- 2 me staff 653 Apr 12 2018 hours_link
remove it with unlink
$ ...
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ln: create symlink using another symlink
Let's suppose I have one file and one directory:
$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x. 2 user user 4096 Oct 8 09:53 dir
-rw-rw-r--. 1 user user 0 Oct 8 09:53 file
I created a symlink to file called ...
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How to create a link (ln -s) with an absolute path?
So using ln -s to make a link will make either a relative link (link->../file) or an absolute link (link->/home/user/dir1/file).
But sometimes I don't want to type the entire absolute path, but ...
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mkdir -p if final target is symlink
Say we have:
node_modules/
suman/
and node_modules/suman is a symlink
if we do:
mkdir -p "$PWD/node_modules/suman"
I assume mkdir -p will not overrwrite the symlink?
what about if $PWD/...
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What is the meaning of 'ln -sT' in Linux?
To be more precise: I know what the -s options stands for - I use it daily. But I saw someone in a tutorial, who was moving the document root of his website from /var/www/html/project to ~/www/project ...
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Why I can't create a hard link from device file in other than /dev directory?
When I wanted to create a hard link in my /home directory in root mode, Linux showed the following error message:
ln: failed to create hard link āmy_sdbā => ā/dev/sda1ā: Invalid cross-device link
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Use libgfrotran.so.3 and GFORTRAN_1.0 on fedora 27
I am trying to use fortran code called SAMMY-8 which has its binary ready for use.
I was using without any issue while I had f25 installed. When upgrading to f27 I got the following error when trying ...
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Create hard link if possible, else use symlink
I am trying to write a shell script to create link for file from my dotfiles repo to my home folder.
I want to use hard link if possible because it cannot be broken when moving it to somewhere in ...
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Why can't a project compile with symbol link
I'm working in a team, which develops a c++ (ROS) project.
For some reason, we haven't a good git management.
We have several git branches. To compile the project, I have to git clone the codes from ...
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Paths in ln with hard links and soft links
How does the relative paths work in ln (-s or not)? For example if I type ln -s foo bar/banana.txt what does this mean? What is foo relative to? Because it doesn't seem to be relative to the current ...
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How do I delete all non-link files from a folder in Linux?
I accidentally copied a bunch of junk into /usr/lib .
How do I rm everything in there except folders and link files?
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Multiple symlinks by wildcard: “ln -s ../*/*.txt TXT/”
I'm trying to create multiple symbolic links using wildcard, here the example:
$ ls -R
.:
TXT a b
./TXT:
./a:
a.txt
./b:
b.txt
There is a "parent directoory" containing various subdirs: a, b, ...
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How can I stack wildcards to target specific files?
I want to target all files called fooxxxbarxxx. The common thing among all those files is that it contains foo and bar.
I've tried to use *foo*bar* and *foo**bar* but it doesn't work.
Specifically,...
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Remove symlinks originating from specific directory
I have an "install.sh" that installs my personal scripts:
find /home/Steven -name '*.sh' -exec ln -s -t /usr/local/bin {} +
I would like to make an "uninstall.sh" that removes the symbolic links ...
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Shell script keeps making broken symbolic links
I'm trying to manage my dot files inside a sub directory of $HOME and write a shell script that sets up symbolic links inside $HOME.
#!/bin/sh
for i in .cvsignore .gitconfig .npmrc .tmux.conf ....
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Rm hardlink without removing file/directory itself
Say I create a hardlink with ln x y.
Is there a way to remove the link at y without removing the file at x, after I create the link? It looks like I did a rm -rf on y and it deleted x as well, would ...
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Making a link using ln -s [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a link using:
ln -s /Backup files/ /link 1
Instead of making the link, I'm get the following output:
ln: target '/link' is not a directory
What am I doing wrong?
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Why can a softlink to a directory be created with or without the trailing slash?
I have found that when creating a symbolic link to a folder it is produced with or without the trailing slash based on your input. for example:
$ ln -sfv /ln-test/FOLDER/ test-tail
test-tail -> /...
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Nested Mount Best Practice
I have two filesystems that need to be mounted on a RedHat system /apps and /apps/label. /apps will have several sub directorates and label will just have files FTP'd to it.
Would it be better to ...
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Problem to install latest version of shellcheck from tar.xz
I have been downloading the latest version of ShellCheck and tried to install it on my System taking the following steps:
I downloded shellcheck-latest.linux.x86_64.tar.xz
then I run as root:
# ...
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Why can't I create a `hardlink` to a file from a “mount --bind” directory on the same filesystem?
Original Problem
I have a file on one filesystem: /data/src/file
and I want to hard link it to: /home/user/proj/src/file
but /home is on one disk, and /data is on another so I get an error:
$ cd /...
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how do i link one directory to another directory so that FTP or SMB share can still use that directory
Needing to link a SMB share directory to a empty directory with a FTP share. There is a empty directory inside of FTP_Share1 called smbshare which I am trying to link to SMB_Share1 to access all of ...
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Why Does `'ln -s /directory 'D:'` Work Like It Does?
So, as mentioned here, 'ln -s /directory 'D:' maps the windows D: location to a Linux style directory.
However, as far as I know, this goes against the Linux naming system. Why does Linux allow the ...
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ln -s reports that a procedure failed, but creates symlinks nonetheless
I am in the parent directory and there are a number of files with .fastq, .fq, .fastq.gz and .fq.gz extensions in different subdirectories. I created a subdirectory named FASTQC and want to create ...
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Inconsistent behaviour creating symbolic links with relative and force flag
I have an issue with creating symbolic links with ln, with the relative and the force flag set.
The scenario is as follows:
$ tree
.
āāā folder1
āĀ Ā āāā file
āāā folder2
I create the link:
$ ln -...
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Size of symlink
Symbolic links do take room, of course, but just the room it takes to store
the name and target plus a few bytes for other metadata
Do symbolic links actually make a difference in disk usage?
My ...
