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Symlink is short for symbolic link (also soft link). It is a term for any file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution.

symlink is short for symbolic link (also soft link). It is a term for any file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution

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Symlink from existing path?

I'm trying to install an up to date version of Node.js on my Centos5.2 server. As such I need to use an altinstall of python 2.7. I'm told that I need to create a symlink from the default version of python 2.4 to python 2.7 during the installation,…
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In Linux how do I get my Perl script to run like a binary?

I have a Perl Script that i'd like to be able to run from the command line. I can run this perfectly on it's own. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here? Here are the things I've tried $ ln -s slice.pl /bin $ ln -s slice.pl /usr/bin $ ln -s…
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How do I use find to search for symlink names under OS X?

I'm familiar with the -lname option to find, but it isn't working as I would expect it to. Specifically, it doesn't seem to match anything, unless I am in the same directory as the symlink. This is useless as I have a quite nested directory…
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Delete a symlink

I tried to uninstall an application (Tunnelblick) on MacOSX 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion) but I can't empty the trash. If I look in the application folder, I found a single file that is the problem. So I tried to delete it via Terminal but the following…
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Issue linking g++-4.8 Mac OSX 10.8

I downloaded gcc v4.8 from homebrew so that I could update gcc and g++ to 4.8 instead of using the 4.2.1 supplied from apple. I installed gcc48 with the following command: $brew install gcc48 --enable-all-languages This installed all the required…
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How can I pass symbolic linked file path parameter to Wine programs from a bash script?

I made a very short bash script which start Virtualdub with Wine, and it can get a parameter too, the name and path of a video file. My script, called "vd" (it is placed in /usr/local/bin and chmodded to 755): #!/bin/bash wine…
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Codeigniter - 1 project - several domain names and several IP

I have 1 dedicated server. The server has several IPs. Some IP are dedicated for one particular domain. Ip1 = mysite.be Ip2 = mysite.fr Ip3 = mysite.com There is only one project. Each domain goes on the same location My website is on…
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Incompatible libc.so.6 Found During Cross-Compilation of Qt5 OpenGL Test for i.MX6

I'm trying to cross-compile Qt5 for the Freescale i.MX6 processor. I've already built an image using the latest Yocto package. Before compilation of qtbase, a test for OpenGL functionality is first ran by compiling an some OpenGL code. However,…
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Unix shell script command that creates symlinks on windows?

Is there a unix shell script command that creates symlinks, that works on windows too? (not windows-specific command but one that works on a unix-like shell like git bash) Basically what i'm trying to do is: a script that creates a set of symlinks.…
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cannot pass commandline args to globale installed node package via bin shortcut

I try to write a commandline app with node and want to install it with npm install -g After that it is not possible to read out the process.argv array. I tried this : // print process.argv process.argv.forEach(function(val, index, array) { …
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How to restore Sublime Text settings and preferences and undo the symlink created in Dropbox?

How can I restore Sublime Text settings and preferences and undo the symlink created in Dropbox? I cannot access the Sublime Text 2 preferences on my machine after creating a symlink in Dropbox. These are the commands I ran on my primary…
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Can the Rails Console be reloaded when release symlink changes?

I am running rails on a Capistrano-based deployment setup. I prefer to leave rails console sessions open in tmux, and have them persistently available. Capistrano puts the application in a director named releases/201304251515 (or the current time),…
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Apache and Symbolic Symlink getting parent dir php

i have a problem creating symlink, i want the script take the "child" folder instead of the parent folder /var/www/FolderParent - .... somefile.php /var/www/FolderChild - .... somefile.php (symlink from parent) somefile.php content: echo…
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a already symlinked file when gitignored will work fine or not?

I have created a symlink in the shared directory of production. if i set this file to gitignore and push the code on github master where it will not be visible now. So please tell me the symlink for that file will work fine or not?
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Subversion Externals Follow Symlink

Is there a way to use a symlink with the svn:externals property? I've a project running on my webserver (under unix) which has some folders that are actually symlink to other folders. When I add the symlink to the repository it gets converted to a…
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