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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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How do I get symlinked files to see non-symlinked directories

I have a batch of files in /home/***/construct/ which I have symlinked to the subdomain 'http://sampleaccount.mywebsite.com' so that the '/constuct/' directory appears in that subdomain's specific directory tree. The files within '/construct/' are…
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fake python modules via symlinks: on windows?

I have several compiled python modules; they are put into a single .so (to avoid runtime linking, there are cross-module symbol dependencies), but a number of symlinks points to this .so: foo.so -> liball.so bar.so -> liball.so liball.so This way,…
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Symlinks in node.js on commit

I was trying to create a node.js (express.js) app on a shared folder in VirtualBox (guest Ubuntu, host Win7). During this try I got an error saying symlinks are not supported by my drive. This is a minor issue, but... If symlinks are so important to…
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Removing a symlink

A few weeks ago I created a symlink on my local machine, at that time it worked fine, but now I realised I created a wrong link and now everything on my localhost is pointing to one particular folder. I completely forget where I created this link…
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Copying symbolic link for different OS's in java

Is it possible to copy a symbolic link in java... Basically I want is to copy only symbolic link no containing files, where symbolic link points to..
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Windows 7: Folder Size Restrictions - Multi-folder symlinking

A bit of an odd question, kind of two in one honesty; Currently looking to do this in Windows 7. I have Folder A and Folder B, both with different files in them. First thing I would like to do is set a restriction so that no more then 5GBs worth of…
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Junction/Simlink Causes plugin_url() to Return the Wrong URL

I'm testing my plugin in various WordPress versions and using symbolic links for it. I use the tool called Junction for Windows. This way I just only need to edit the trunk files. However, WordPress does not seem to handle symbolic links very…
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Why does the trailing slash in ln -s matter?

Let's say (hypothetically) that I wanted to make a symlink to my Documents folder on my Desktop. I would do this: cd ~/Desktop ln -s ~/Documents which will make a symlink called Documents on my Desktop. However, when I do this (note the trailing…
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svn doesn't recognize symlinks

My development server has my project hosted at /path/to/project/version_number, with the path /path/to/project/Live symlinked to the latest version number. In the working directory, svn update . works as expected, but svn update…
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MacOSX Give alias/symlink label color but not original file

Hoi Stackoverflow, i have a short question. Is it possible to set the label of an alias/symlink to a certain color without effecting other symlinks and the original file? Lets say if have one main folder and different subgroups. Each subgroups…
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Can you symlink a directory and all its contents in Perl?

I am quite new to Perl and have figured out how to symlink files. Can you do this with directories as well? I would like to make a symlink between a certain directory and one or more other directories so if I edit a file in the original directory,…
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Symbolically link all JPGs in a directory tree to a single directory

I have a series of directories, and images contained within: /Volumes/library/Originals/2012/2012-05-13 Event/filename.jpg /Volumes/library/Originals/2011/2011-03-11 Event/filename.jpg /Volumes/library/Originals/2011/2011-01-12…
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Gitolite - adding new public key - could not symlink

I've installed the latest version of gitolite on Ubuntu: I'm running gitolite setup -pk user2.pub The error I'm getting is: FATAL: could not symlink /home/git/.gitolite/hooks/common/update to MyRepository. git/hooks at…
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Lost dotfiles in symlink loop

In the process of symlinking my dotfiles (.vimrc, .zshrc, .bashrc etc.) I wrote a simple ruby script to do this for me so I could switch between two different sets of dotfiles... however in the process I made a dumb mistake, and ended up linking my…
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Can't open file in php if one of directories is a symlink

I have 3 sites live, staging and development, devel site have copy of all files from live and database copy but staging is not since they are both on the same physical server (staging and devlopment) I want to synlink files from dev to live (it's…
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