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Commandline101: Creating Symbolic Links

Mar 25, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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How to create symbolic links from the command line. Making shortcuts to the files you use most can make your life easier.

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Dont forget the '-s'

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mar 29, 2009.

Make sure you enter 'ln -s ...' or else you'll make a hard link. It's very different from a symlink and probably not what you wanted.

MDF

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Submitted by waparmley on Mar 25, 2009.

Shawn, the MDF backdrop is kinda cheap looking -- you clearly need a bigger budget! Well, now that the economy has recovered* that should not be a problem.

;-)

Thanks for another great video tip.

*Don't blame me, see Shawn's blog.

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