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- From: ratner@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Dave "Van Damme" Ratner)
- Subject: Re: Soft link
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:03:53 GMT
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- friedenb@pine.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg) writes:
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- >I have a program which requires me to make a
- >soft link of ~/.plan to /tmp/.plan
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- >I have looked in manuals, but with no success.
- >I know about hard links (ln -s), but I have
- >never heard of soft links until this program.
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- >If someone could let me know how to do this,
- >I would greatly appreciate it.
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- >Gedaliah Friedenberg
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- RTFM. See "man ln". ln -s is NOT a hard link, it is a symbolic (soft) link.
- ln without any options creates a hard link.
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- Dave
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