ln - Command line tool to create hard links to existing files and soft links to existing and non-existent files.
Questions tagged [ln]
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What is `ln --no-dereference` supposed 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
treat LINK_NAME as a normal file if it is a symbolic…
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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 symlink1, and a symlink to dir called dirslink1:
$ ls…
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Understanding the usage of ln
From coreutils' manual, for ln
ln makes links between files. By default, it makes hard links; with
the -s option, it makes symbolic (or soft) links. Synopses:
ln [option]... [-T] target linkname
ln [option]... target
ln [option]... target...…
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Maintain Ownership While Updating Symbolic Links
I'm migrating a file system and I need to update a few thousand symbolic links that'll break as a result of the migration. My plan was to find all the affected links and build a script that'd process each link. For example:
ln -nsf "$(readlink…
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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
.
├── folder1
│ └── file
└── folder2
I create the link:
$ ln -sfr folder1/file folder2
$ tree
.
├── folder1
│ └──…
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Making a link using ln -s
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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'ln' doesn't behave the same when executed in a script
I'm trying to install Guacamole through a script. When it comes to link the files stored in /etc/guacamole to tomcat8 directory, the following line works well when executed in the shell :
ln -s /etc/guacamole/ /usr/share/tomcat8/.guacamole
The…
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How can i move from one directory to another using the command ln and a relativ path in linux
My problem is that I need to move from a directory to another one by only using the ln command
So here I have this relative path: ../../10/wsl and I know I have to create a symlink with ln to be able to create a tunnel to the other directory. Then…
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Does this example implement the same as `ln -sr`?
From coreutils' manual about ln
-r --relative
Make symbolic links relative to the link location.
Example:
ln -srv /a/file /tmp
’/tmp/file’ -> ’../a/file’
Relative symbolic links are generated based on their canonicalized
containing directory,…
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