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Use this tag for questions related to the `ln` (link) command. The `ln` command is available in *nix OS to create links, allowing more than one filename to refer to the same file. Two types of links can be created using `ln`: symbolic links and hard links. Do not use this tag to refer to the natural base-e logarithm (furthermore base-e log is written "log" in most programming languages): use the [natural-logarithm] for that.

The ln (link) command is used in *nix OS to create links, allowing more than one filename to refer to the same file. Two types of links can be created using ln:

  1. Symbolic links: refer to a symbolic path indicating the abstract location of another file. The two file names need not be on the same file system. System call: symlink().
  2. Hard links: refer to the specific location of a physical file. The two file names must both be on the same file system. System call: link().

Note: For questions related to ln function which is used to calculate logarithms, please use the tag.

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ln -s command failing in Solaris

I have a situation where my installation process runs a script which creates symbolic links for couple of files. The case here is the links are not being created and ln -s command is getting failed with the below error. No such file or…
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How to create link to directory in makefile in Linux?

I have makefile containing code below. ddd : @mkdir -p /full/path_new/to/new_dir @ln -fs /full/path_old/to/old_dir/private /full/path_new/to/new_dir/private Linux ln command creates link in both directory taget and parent. It means I…
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Is it possible to create links between two perforce repositories?

Is it possible to create a link between two perforce repositories, kind of like symbolic links in linux. Example: //depot/mydir/A@ -> //depot/mydir/B/ So when you try to sync //depot/mydir/A, you will sync //depot/mydir/B/... Or integrate, or so on.…
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Cannot make symbolic links

I run a webpage on CentOS 6.6 by using Apache 2.4.10. My documentroot is /var/www/htdocs. Last month, because my disk became full, I added another disk in /disk1. I want to place large movie files in this directory and want visitors of my website to…
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find and create hard link with regex in different path

The below script finds a file, then creates a hard link in a destination path. find /path/to/files -name "example" -exec ln {} /path/to/destination/ \; I would like to create the link using the following 'y/./ /; s/[()]//g;…
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man does not find man pages associated with the source files pointed to by symbolic links

My hard drive recently crashed, so I took the opportunity to upgraded from Mac OS X 10.6.8 to 10.9.5 from a fresh install. Mavericks comes with "gcc" Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.51). I want to use gcc-mp-4.8 that I downloaded from…
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Why do I get an error when I pass a symbolic link to Gnuplot under Cygwin?

I get an error when using a symbolic link in gnuplot: on l: drive plot "/j/projMainpips/Aggregate/dailyStats.txt" u 1:4 w l lw 1 warning: Skipping unreadable file "/j/projMainpips/Aggregate/dailyStats.txt" No data in plot The link was created…
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linux commands mkdir, rm -r and ln -s -T in processing phase of IZPack 5.0.0

I am using JBoss 7.1.1 application server with my java application in linux and have successfully been able to start JBoss during the processing phase of IZPack(processSpec.xml). I was getting "command not found" messages during the processing…
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copy link into multiple subfolders

I am looking if there is a simple use of ln program to create multiple symbolic links in multiple subdirectories all pointing to same file. Example. I'm in a directory /home/user/workspace and want to make a symbolic link of…
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mdfind used for creating symlinks not working as expected

I am trying to use the output from mdfind to create a bunch of symlinks. Output of mdfind is like this: /pathtofile1/ /pathtofile2/ /pathtofile3/ So, I used sed to add ln -s to the start of each line, and awk {print $0 "/directory where I want…
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Why does moving symlinked directory A to symlinked directory B cause A to be moved inside B?

Scenario: I'm writing a shell script that checks to see if a directory exists; if it does, and it's a symlink, it renames the directory with .bak appended to the directory name. I noticed, however, that if I'm moving a symlinked directory (directory…
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share tomcat logs using tomcat http service

In our testing enviornment (Linux), we use tomcat http service to share logs. for example, In tomcat/webapps/ROOT, ln -s tomcat/logs share-log, then everyone can access tomcat logs http://tomcatip.domain.com:8080/share-log But I have issue with one…
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mac osx ln command: linking directories mac osx with alias or symbolic link?

I have a tool (EVEHQ) on my bootcamp windows xp installed. I'm running parallels to use the application. works great. Problem is the application has a hardwired (binary) directory path it uses to store some data. I need the data on the mac side. I…
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(Linux/General) concering /bin/rocks

So I am trying to install a software not "supported" by my linux distro (Ubuntu) I have it under control, but I am curious about some coding I was told to use. sudo ln -s /bin/true /bin/rocks sudo ./setup.sh This was suggested after I…
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Creating a Symbolic Link to Access MySQL with Automatic Login

I am looking for a simpler way to log in to MySQL through the terminal without having to input my username and password each time. I am using MAMP and to access my databases, I just simply type mysql and it is accessed. To do that I just created a…
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